{"id":1562650,"date":"2024-03-20T03:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T03:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/mar\/20\/australia-writer-yang-hengjun-china-death-sentence-penny-wong"},"modified":"2024-03-20T03:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T03:19:14","slug":"australians-shocked-at-death-sentence-imposed-on-yang-hengjun-penny-wong-tells-chinese-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/20\/australians-shocked-at-death-sentence-imposed-on-yang-hengjun-penny-wong-tells-chinese-counterpart\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians \u2018shocked\u2019 at death sentence imposed on Yang Hengjun, Penny Wong tells Chinese counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign affairs minister says she raised concerns about China\u2019s human rights record during meeting with Wang Yi, including in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2024\/mar\/20\/australia-politics-live-china-foreign-minister-wang-yi-penny-wong-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-religious-discrimination-immigration-detainees\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li><li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>The Australian foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has told her visiting Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, that Australians are \u201cshocked\u201d at the suspended death sentence imposed on the writer Dr Yang Hengjun.<\/p><p>Wong raised the Australian citizen\u2019s case \u2013 along with human rights more broadly \u2013 during a meeting that was largely aimed at stabilising the previously turbulent relationship with Australia\u2019s largest trading partner.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/mar\/20\/australia-writer-yang-hengjun-china-death-sentence-penny-wong\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/mar\/20\/australia-writer-yang-hengjun-china-death-sentence-penny-wong\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign affairs minister says she raised concerns about China\u2019s human rights record during meeting with Wang Yi, including in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong KongFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,1340,1208,1730,190,6,19376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562652,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562650\/revisions\/1562652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}