{"id":4002,"date":"2014-11-27T17:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2014-11-27T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T22:55:59","slug":"two-prominent-chinese-activists-set-for-trial-on-public-order-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/two-prominent-chinese-activists-set-for-trial-on-public-order-charges","title":{"rendered":"Two Prominent Chinese Activists Set for Trial on Public Order Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/11\/image-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/11\/image-1.gif\" alt=\"image (1)\" width=\"305\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>2014-11-27<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will try two prominent rights activists on Friday <!--more-->on public order offenses after they took part in street protests for press freedom and called for greater government transparency and protection for human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Activists Yang Maodong, better known by his nickname Guo Feixiong, and Sun Sihuo, better known as Sun Desheng, will stand trial at the Tianhe District People&#8217;s Court in Guangzhou on charges of &#8220;gathering a crowd to disrupt public order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both men were detained in August 2013, several months after taking part in anti-censorship protests outside the cutting-edge Southern Weekly newspaper buildings in Guangzhou, and after they called on Chinese leaders to declare details of their own and their families&#8217; assets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Guo Feixiong] will be pleading not guilty, and has prepared a very full defense,&#8221; his defense lawyer Zhang Lei told RFA after visiting his client in the Tianhe District Detention Center on Thursday. &#8220;We were able to discuss some of the details of tomorrow&#8217;s trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nF<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/rights-11272014171205.html\">or detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014-11-27 Photo courtesy of Guo Feixion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/two-prominent-chinese-activists-set-for-trial-on-public-order-charges\">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":[35,45],"tags":[479],"views":4213,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002"}],"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=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}