{"id":1804,"date":"2014-06-25T02:43:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2014-06-25T02:43:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:43:37","slug":"china-activist-to-stand-trial-lawyer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-activist-to-stand-trial-lawyer-says","title":{"rendered":"China Activist to Stand Trial, Lawyer Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">By CHRIS BUCKLEY JUNE 24, 2014<\/span><br \/>\nHONG KONG \u2014 Prosecutors in southern China have decided to put on trial a well-known human rights campaigner, Yang Maodong, on charges of disrupting public order, his lawyer said on Tuesday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Yang and a co-defendant are likely to be the latest in a line of activists tried for participating in a burst of protests against corruption, censorship and the detention of protesters after President Xi Jinping\u2019s elevation to the Communist Party leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Yang, 47, best known by his pen name, Guo Feixiong, was detained last August in Guangzhou, the southern Chinese city where he had emerged as a combative and charismatic leader of activists and aggrieved citizens who had sought to push for political change in the relatively relaxed atmosphere after Mr. Xi\u2019s elevation in November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/24\/world\/asia\/china-activist-to-stand-trial-lawyer-says.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>For detail please visit here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CHRIS BUCKLEY JUNE 24, 2014 HONG KONG &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-activist-to-stand-trial-lawyer-says\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,136],"tags":[479,1350,478],"views":1181,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}