{"id":37607,"date":"2019-03-27T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37607"},"modified":"2019-03-27T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:22:37","slug":"ex-internet-czar-sentenced-to-14-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37607","title":{"rendered":"Ex-internet czar sentenced to 14 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Beijing (CNN)<\/cite>China has sentenced the country&#8217;s former internet czar and top censor to 14 years in prison, after he was found guilty of corruption, a court statement said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Lu Wei, who once headed the country&#8217;s powerful cyberspace administration, had accepted bribes worth more than 32 million yuan ($4.8 million) from 2002 to 2017, according to the Ningbo Intermediate People&#8217;s Court in eastern China.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Lu, 59,<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/07\/30\/asia\/lu-wei-china-internet-censorship-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> was charged<\/a> in July 2018. He said he would not appeal the verdict. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing (CNN)China has sentenced the country&#8217;s former internet czar and top censor to 14 years in prison, after he was found guilty of corruption, a court statement said Tuesday. Lu Wei, who once headed the country&#8217;s powerful cyberspace administration, had accepted bribes worth more than 32 million yuan ($4.8 million) from 2002 to 2017, according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}