{"id":3266,"date":"2016-08-06T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2016-08-06T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T05:05:00","slug":"china-un-experts-call-end-abuse-human-rights-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/china-un-experts-call-end-abuse-human-rights-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"China: UN experts call for an end to the abuse of a human rights defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expressing deep concern about the critical health condition of a prisoner on hunger strike for three months, a group of United Nations independent human rights experts called on the Government of China to stop all forms of ill-treatment and urgently provide him with specialized medical care, based on his full and informed consent.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent Chinese human rights defender Yang Maodong, known by his pen-name \u2018Guo Feixiong,\u2019 was arrested in August 2013 for taking part in a public protest against official censorship of a Guangzhou newspaper, and has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges of \u201cgathering crowds to disturb public order\u201d and \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Guo is on hunger strike for nearly three months, asking to be transferred to another prison where he would not be subjected to ill-treatment (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Un.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expressing deep concern about the critical health condition of a prisoner on hunger strike for three months, a group of United Nations independent human rights experts called on the Government of China to stop all forms of ill-treatment and urgently provide him with specialized medical care, based on his full and informed consent. Prominent Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,57,503],"tags":[90,1028,1029,862],"class_list":["post-3266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-and-oceania","category-human-rights-defenders-messages","category-latest-news","tag-abuse","tag-china-experts","tag-human-rights-defender","tag-the-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}