{"id":1823,"date":"2014-06-25T03:06:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T03:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2014-06-25T03:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T03:06:45","slug":"china-indicts-activist-who-backed-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-indicts-activist-who-backed-press-freedom","title":{"rendered":"China indicts activist who backed press freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">By AP News Jun 24, 2014 7:22PM UTC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 A lawyer for the prominent Chinese activist Yang Maodong says Yang has been indicted on the charge of gathering crowds to disrupt public order more than 10 months after he was taken into police custody.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The indictment of Yang, better known for his pen name Guo Feixiong, is the latest in a string of prosecutions of activists who have criticized the policies and practices of China\u2019s government under President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai-based lawyer Zhang Xuezhong said Yang\u2019s charge largely stems from an incident in early 2013 when he joined crowds of people who rallied outside a Chinese newspaper to support press freedom during the paper\u2019s dispute with government censors.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/asiancorrespondent.com\/124101\/china-indicts-activist-who-backed-press-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AP News Jun 24, 2014 7:22PM UTC BEIJI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-indicts-activist-who-backed-press-freedom\">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":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,167],"tags":[479,478],"views":1251,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823"}],"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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}