{"id":2970,"date":"2014-09-07T20:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T20:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2014-09-07T20:53:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T20:53:27","slug":"china-targets-family-friends-to-coerce-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-targets-family-friends-to-coerce-activists","title":{"rendered":"China Targets Family, Friends to Coerce Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">The Associated Press\u2019 Didi Tang reports on the pressure applied to friends <!--more-->and families of activists and others who find themselves at odds with the authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Xiao Yong used to hold up placards at protests, demanding that China\u2019s leaders declare their assets in a call for political transparency and accountability. But he stopped after men began following his father around and urging him to persuade his 39-year-old son to drop his activism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started to dread that my father\u2019s health would deteriorate because of this,\u201d said Xiao, a former employee at a state electrical utility in the southern city of Shaoyang. \u201cThe government was working on my family members, talking to them and instilling fear in them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To deter political and social activists, Chinese authorities routinely target their family members, friends and associates, pressuring them to be unwilling agents of persuasion or penalizing them directly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/09\/china-targets-family-friends-coerce-activists\/#.VAug9NVhZTE.twitter\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press\u2019 Didi Tang reports  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-targets-family-friends-to-coerce-activists\">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],"tags":[314,1343,866],"views":3095,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970"}],"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=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}