{"id":3237,"date":"2014-09-18T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2014-09-18T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:58:30","slug":"daughters-of-chinese-activists-demand-meeting-with-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/daughters-of-chinese-activists-demand-meeting-with-obama","title":{"rendered":"Daughters of Chinese activists demand meeting with Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POSTED: 18 Sep 2014 08:32<br \/>\nDaughters of detained Chinese activists on Wednesday (Sep 17) demanded a meeting with President Barack Obama, saying he must double down on efforts to win their release when he meets Chinese leaders.<br \/>\nWASHINGTON: Daughters of detained Chinese activists <!--more-->on Wednesday (Sep 17) demanded a meeting with President Barack Obama, saying he must double down on efforts to win their release when he meets Chinese leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Gathered on Washington&#8217;s sun-kissed Capitol lawn alongside Congressional allies, the women insisted the United States can and must do more to get their dads out of jail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that high-level diplomacy is our fathers&#8217; only chance for freedom,&#8221; said Ti-Anna Wang, daughter of Wang Bingzhang, founder of the China Spring movement, who got a life sentence in 2003 after a closed trial that lasted just a day.<\/p>\n<p>Their release, Wang said, must be discussed when Obama travels to Beijing in November for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/asiapacific\/daughters-of-chinese\/1367660.html#.VBoweIrDf-U.twitter\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POSTED: 18 Sep 2014 08:32 Daughters of d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/daughters-of-chinese-activists-demand-meeting-with-obama\">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":[908,907,83,182],"views":3659,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237"}],"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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}