{"id":33096,"date":"2021-02-10T04:46:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/chinese-publisher-who-spoke-up-for-dissident-academic-is-jailed-for-three-years"},"modified":"2021-02-10T04:46:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:46:04","slug":"chinese-publisher-who-spoke-up-for-dissident-academic-is-jailed-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/10\/chinese-publisher-who-spoke-up-for-dissident-academic-is-jailed-for-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese publisher who spoke up for dissident academic is jailed for three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geng Xiaonan guilty of publishing illegal titles after she made comments backing Beijing critic Xu Zhangrun <\/p><p>A Chinese publisher who spoke out in support of a dissident academic has been jailed for three years in Beijing after she pleaded guilty to illegal business operations.<\/p><p>Geng Xiaonan, 46, and her husband Qin Zhen, were arrested in September on suspicion of publishing thousands of illegal titles. According to reports, Geng told the court she was guilty of the charges against her, that she was the primary decision maker, and asked it to show leniency to her husband and staff who were just following instructions. She also asked for leniency for herself, because she was sole carer to her ailing father.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/15\/xi-critic-professor-this-may-be-last-piece-i-write-words-ring-true\">\u2018This may be the last piece I write\u2019: prominent Xi critic has internet cut after house arrest<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/chinese-publisher-who-spoke-up-for-dissident-academic-is-jailed-for-three-years\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/chinese-publisher-who-spoke-up-for-dissident-academic-is-jailed-for-three-years\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geng Xiaonan guilty of publishing illegal titles after she made comments backing Beijing critic Xu Zhangrun A Chinese publisher who spoke out in support of a dissident academic has been jailed for three years in Beijing after she pleaded guilty to ille&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,6,2024],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33096"}],"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=33096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33097,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33096\/revisions\/33097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}