{"id":37854,"date":"2022-03-03T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=37854"},"modified":"2022-03-03T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:00:31","slug":"picking-quarrels-and-provoking-trouble-should-no-longer-be-a-crime-in-china-says-leading-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=37854","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Picking quarrels and provoking trouble\u2019 should no longer be a crime in China, says leading lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA leading Chinese lawyer and member of the country\u2019s top political advisory body has suggested that \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble\u201d \u2013 a catch-all term routinely used by law enforcement to muzzle dissent \u2013 should no longer be a crime.Rights activists and petitioners have long been targeted by the infamous \u201cpocket crime\u201d for a wide range of dissident acts and legal experts are pessimistic that lawmakers will consider the proposal during next week\u2019s annual parliamentary session.What is\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3168986\/picking-quarrels-and-provoking-trouble-should-no-longer-be?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA leading Chinese lawyer and member of the country\u2019s top political advisory body has suggested that \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble\u201d \u2013 a catch-all&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37855,"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\/37854"}],"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=37854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}