{"id":3958,"date":"2014-11-22T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T00:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2014-11-22T19:32:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T00:32:23","slug":"chinese-activist-and-journalist-go-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinese-activist-and-journalist-go-on-trial","title":{"rendered":"Chinese activist and journalist go on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Gao faces charges of revealing state secrets while Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti&#8217;s life sentence appeal rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Last updated: 21 Nov 2014 08:55<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/11\/665003303001_3902930311001_201411218648692580-20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/11\/665003303001_3902930311001_201411218648692580-20-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"665003303001_3902930311001_201411218648692580-20\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/11\/665003303001_3902930311001_201411218648692580-20-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/11\/665003303001_3902930311001_201411218648692580-20.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Chinese authorities have put on trial an outspoken journalist accused of revealing state secrets and rejected an appeal by <!--more-->a prominent Uighur scholar whose life sentence on separatism charges had sparked an outcry from the West.<\/p>\n<p>The closed-door trial of Gao Yu, 70, accused of providing state secrets to foreign contacts, began on Friday morning in a Beijing court.<\/p>\n<p>Gao, who is well known for her critical articles of government leaders, faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate case, Ilham Tohti, China&#8217;s most prominent advocate for the rights of Muslim Uighur people, heard on Friday he lost his appeal in a detention centre in the northwestern Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p>President Xi Jinping&#8217;s government has convicted and detained hundreds of people in what rights groups say is the most severe assault on human rights in China since the 1989 crackdown on a pro-democracy movement around Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/asia-pacific\/2014\/11\/chinese-activist-journalist-go-trial-2014112162755936166.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Gao faces charges of revealing  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinese-activist-and-journalist-go-on-trial\">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":[35,95,45],"tags":[92,122],"views":3553,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958"}],"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=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}