{"id":19170,"date":"2021-08-25T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=19170"},"modified":"2021-08-25T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T01:00:20","slug":"picking-quarrels-and-provoking-trouble-how-chinas-catch-all-crime-muzzles-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=19170","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Picking quarrels and provoking trouble\u2019: how China\u2019s catch-all crime muzzles dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn August, two Chinese activists were sentenced to 15 months in prison for \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble\u201d after archiving censored internet materials during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.The broadly worded criminal charge has been widely criticised for its potential to be used to muzzle dissent. Known as a catch-all offence or a \u201cpocket crime\u201d, the charge has been used by Chinese authorities against human rights activists and dissidents for a wide range of behaviours.What is\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3146188\/picking-quarrels-and-provoking-trouble-how-chinas-catch-all?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn August, two Chinese activists were sentenced to 15 months in prison for \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble\u201d after archiving censored internet materials during&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}