{"id":1610697,"date":"2024-04-15T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T08:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/15\/china-continues-to-unlawfully-persecute-family-of-dissidents-finds-report"},"modified":"2024-04-15T08:36:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T08:36:56","slug":"china-continues-to-unlawfully-persecute-family-of-dissidents-finds-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/15\/china-continues-to-unlawfully-persecute-family-of-dissidents-finds-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China continues to unlawfully persecute family of dissidents, finds report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities continuing \u2018intimidation\u2019 including separating children from their parents, despite pledge to end collective punishment<\/p><p>China continues to unlawfully target the families of activists and dissidents, despite a pledge to end the practice of collective punishment, a Chinese human rights group has said in a new report.<\/p><p>The persecution, which includes intimidation and harassment, forced evictions, travel bans, criminal proceedings against family members and preventing children from attending school, have affected people across China and the diaspora community for decades, the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) group said in a report on Monday. Acts of collective punishment are prohibited in international human rights law.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/15\/china-continues-to-unlawfully-persecute-family-of-dissidents-finds-report\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/15\/china-continues-to-unlawfully-persecute-family-of-dissidents-finds-report\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities continuing \u2018intimidation\u2019 including separating children from their parents, despite pledge to end collective punishmentChina continues to unlawfully target the families of activists and dissidents, despite a pledge to end the practice of co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,6,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610697"}],"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\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610798,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610697\/revisions\/1610798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}