{"id":1128,"date":"2014-09-10T01:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2014\/09\/10\/detained-uighur-activist-appears-china-court\/"},"modified":"2014-09-10T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T01:30:31","slug":"detained-uighur-activist-appears-china-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/detained-uighur-activist-appears-china-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Detained Uighur activist appears in China court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detained Uighur scholar Dr. Ilham Tohti has appeared in a Chinese court for the first time since being arrested eight months ago charged with separatism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<div>\n<p>17:08, 09 September 2014 Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Detained Uighur scholar Dr. Ilham Tohti has appeared in a Chinese court for the first time since being arrested eight months ago charged with separatism.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Nationalities University professor and human rights activist was detained on January 15 and has not been seen in public since.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in court on Sunday for the first hearing of his trial in Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous Xinjiang (East Turkestan) region, Turkish news portal Dunya Bulteni reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tohti remained in the hearing, with shackles on his ankles, for a total of three hours and fifteen minutes, in which his charges were read out by five prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>In the hearing, Dr. Tohti rejected the charges against him as being ideological and political.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detained Uighur scholar Dr. Ilham Tohti has appeared in a Chinese court for the first time since being arrested eight months ago charged with separatism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}