{"id":2807,"date":"2014-08-28T18:36:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T18:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T18:36:32","slug":"pretrial-hearing-scheduled-for-detained-uyghur-scholar-tohti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/pretrial-hearing-scheduled-for-detained-uyghur-scholar-tohti","title":{"rendered":"Pretrial Hearing Scheduled For Detained Uyghur Scholar Tohti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">2014-08-27\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/image-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2808\" alt=\"image (13)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/image-13-300x203.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/image-13-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/image-13.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIlham Tohti in Beijing, August 2012.<!--more--><br \/>\nPhoto courtesy of Ilham Tohti<br \/>\nChinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have moved a step closer to trying detained Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti for &#8220;separatism,&#8221; with a pretrial hearing scheduled for next month, his lawyer said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They told me a pretrial hearing will take place on Sept. 7,&#8221; Liu Xiaoyuan, a member of Tohti&#8217;s defense team, told RFA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Originally it was scheduled for Sept. 5, but there was a clash with another case that [fellow defense lawyer] Li Fangping is working on, so it&#8217;s been moved to the morning of Sept. 7,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said Tohti, who was detained in January, would likely attend the hearing in person, but that the hearing and the trial itself were likely to be behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/hearing-08272014121740.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014-08-27\u00a0 Ilham Tohti in Beijing, Augu &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/pretrial-hearing-scheduled-for-detained-uyghur-scholar-tohti\">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":[35,186],"tags":[122,484,288],"views":3109,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807"}],"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=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}