{"id":11886,"date":"2013-11-21T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11886"},"modified":"2013-11-21T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:31:07","slug":"spanish-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-ex-chinese-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11886","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Court issues arrest warrant for ex-Chinese President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11890\" alt=\"spain\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spain.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spain.jpg 224w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spain-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 85vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Spains\u2019s National Court has issued an international arrest warrant for China\u2019s former president Jiang Zemin, after it ruled that the Chinese leader may have been responsible for \u201cgenocide, crimes against humanity, torture and terrorism\u201d against Tibetans during the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case was reportedly brought to the court in 2006 by two Tibetan support groups and a monk with Spanish nationality, utilising a principle in Spanish law known as universal jurisdiction \u2013 whereby suspects of human rights abuses committed abroad can be tried when a Spanish victim is involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Court wrote in a ruling released on Tuesday that there were \u201cindications of participation\u201d by Jiang and four other Chinese officials in the alleged crimes, \u201cgiven the political or military responsibility\u201d they held at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">International human rights and pro-Tibetan groups have long criticised Beijing for what they call oppressive policies in Tibetan regions, where more than 100 monks and laymen have self-immolated in protest of Beijing&#8217;s rule. Beijing has argued that it has poured huge investments into the region to lift Tibetans out of poverty and have accused exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, of inciting dissent to split Tibet from China. &#8211; Economy Watch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spains\u2019s National Court has issued an international arrest warrant for China\u2019s former president Jiang Zemin, after it ruled that the Chinese leader may have been responsible for \u201cgenocide, crimes against humanity, torture and terrorism\u201d against Tibetans during the 1980s and 1990s. The case was reportedly brought to the court in 2006 by two Tibetan support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11886\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spanish Court issues arrest warrant for ex-Chinese President&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[7525,5999,447,7524,7523,7526],"class_list":["post-11886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-chinas-former-president-jiang-zemin","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-genocide","tag-international-arrest-warrant","tag-spainss-national-court","tag-torture-and-terrorism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spain.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11892,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions\/11892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}