{"id":7512,"date":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-group"},"modified":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:00:07","slug":"china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-group\/","title":{"rendered":"China in darkest period for human rights since Tiananmen, says rights group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch lists persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong but notes new willingness to condemn Beijing<\/p><p>China is in the midst of its darkest period for human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre, Human Rights Watch has said in its annual report.<\/p><p>Worsening persecutions of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet, targeting of whistleblowers, the crackdown on Hong Kong and attempts to cover up the coronavirus outbreak were all part of the deteriorating situation under President Xi Jinping, the organisation said.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-group\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-group\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch lists persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong but notes new willingness to condemn BeijingChina is in the midst of its darkest period for human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre, Human Rights Watch has said i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,651,6,1323,111,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512"}],"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=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7567,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}