{"id":246382,"date":"2021-07-21T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nchrd.org\/?p=24267"},"modified":"2021-07-21T04:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T04:06:00","slug":"china-end-persecution-of-free-speech-with-frivolous-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/21\/china-end-persecution-of-free-speech-with-frivolous-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"China: End Persecution of Free Speech with Frivolous Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<img src='https:\/\/www.nchrd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2D8EAE85-3363-4D5D-8478-6169D1EE9933.png' alt='rss'\/>An overview of the legal proceedings of three cases of human rights defenders in pre-trial detention demonstrates how the Chinese government counters dissent using the ever-stretchable criminal charge of \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchrd.org\/2021\/07\/china-end-persecution-of-free-speech-with-frivolous-crimes\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=china-end-persecution-of-free-speech-with-frivolous-crimes\">News \u2013 Chinese Human Rights Defenders<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overview of the legal proceedings of three cases of human rights defenders in pre-trial detention demonstrates how the Chinese government counters dissent using the ever-stretchable criminal charge of \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1526,4,1524],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246382"}],"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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246383,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246382\/revisions\/246383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}