{"id":26842,"date":"2011-09-15T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26842"},"modified":"2011-09-15T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T11:29:38","slug":"china-dissident-yang-maodong-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26842","title":{"rendered":"China: Dissident Yang Maodong freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dissident writer who spent five years in a <a title=\"Index on Censorship - China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese<\/a>\u00a0jail was released on Tuesday. Talking to <a title=\"AP - China dissident writer free after 5 years in jail \" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/china-dissident-writer-free-5-years-jail-083447497.html\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, Yang Maodong said he had been wrongly imprisoned and\u00a0subjected to ill-treatment &#8220;beyond people&#8217;s imagination.&#8221; Yang said\u00a0the charges of alleged illegal business activities for which he was jailed were trumped up and that his jailers only questioned him about his pro-democracy activities, not business matters. Yang was arrested in September 2006 and sentenced in November 2007.\u00a0His <a title=\"English PEN - China: Yang Maodong sentenced to 5 years in prison  \" href=\"http:\/\/www.englishpen.org\/writersinprison\/bulletins\/chinayangmaodongsentencedto5yearsinprison\/\" target=\"_blank\">prosecution<\/a> is believed to relate to a publication entitled\u00a0Shenyang Political Earthquake, which exposed government corruption in Shenyang, Liaoning province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dissident writer who spent five years in a Chinese\u00a0jail was released on Tuesday. Talking to Associated Press, Yang Maodong said he had been wrongly imprisoned and\u00a0subjected to ill-treatment &#8220;beyond people&#8217;s imagination.&#8221; Yang said\u00a0the charges of alleged illegal business activities for which he was jailed were trumped up and that his jailers only questioned him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[7364,319,574,3810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26867,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26842\/revisions\/26867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}