{"id":47253,"date":"2024-02-06T01:33:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=47253"},"modified":"2024-02-06T01:33:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:33:08","slug":"australia-says-writer-yang-jun-given-suspended-death-sentence-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=47253","title":{"rendered":"Australia says writer Yang Jun given suspended death sentence in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia&#8217;s government said Monday writer Yang Jun has been given a suspended death sentence in China, describing it as &#8220;harrowing news&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese-born Australian citizen has been in jail in China since 2019 on spying accusations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Australian government is appalled at this outcome,&#8221; Foreign Minister Penny Wong told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The death sentence may be commuted to life in jail after a period of two years, Wong said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be communicating our response in the strongest terms,&#8221; the Australian minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Wong said the Chinese ambassador would be summoned to hear Australia&#8217;s objection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to acknowledge the acute distress that Dr. Yang and his family will be feeling today, coming after years of uncertainty,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s government said Monday writer Yang Jun has been given a suspended death sentence in China, describing it as &#8220;harrowing news&#8221;. The Chinese-born Australian citizen has been in jail in China since 2019 on spying accusations. &#8220;The Australian government is appalled at this outcome,&#8221; Foreign Minister Penny Wong told a news conference. The death sentence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[370],"class_list":["post-47253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-australia-says-writer-yang-jun-given-suspended-death-sentence-in-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}