{"id":44944,"date":"2018-10-20T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T12:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=44944"},"modified":"2018-10-20T12:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T12:52:25","slug":"chinas-ex-internet-tsar-pleads-guilty-to-taking-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/chinas-ex-internet-tsar-pleads-guilty-to-taking-bribes\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s ex-internet tsar pleads guilty to taking bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing<\/p>\n<p>The former head of China\u2019s censorship apparatus, Lu Wei, pleaded guilty to accepting 32 million yuan (USD 4.6 million) in bribes at a trial on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lu, who oversaw a tightening of online censorship during his post at the Cyberspace Administration of China, was a fierce defendant of China\u2019s censorship policies.<br \/>\nIn 2016, he stepped down from his post, and officials announced he was being investigated for suspected disciplinary violations the following year.<\/p>\n<p>According to a post from Ningbo Intermediate People\u2019s Court\u2019s official Weibo account on Friday, Lu was charged with accepting bribes from 2002 to the latter half of 2017.<br \/>\nProsecutors said Lu used his influence and position at various government organisations, including the Cyberspace Administration of China and Xinhua News Agency, to help others in exchange for benefits.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the trial in Zhejiang province, Lu pleaded guilty and \u201crepented in court\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing The former head of China\u2019s censorship apparatus, Lu Wei, pleaded guilty to accepting 32 million yuan (USD 4.6 million) in bribes at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44946,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44944\/revisions\/44946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}