{"id":31327,"date":"2012-12-09T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31327 "},"modified":"2012-12-09T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T15:15:00","slug":"31327-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31327","title":{"rendered":"Report: Police in China detain monk, accuse him of inciting self-immolations among Tibetans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Published December 09, 2012<\/div><div><\/div><div>Associated Press<\/div><div><\/div><div>BEIJING &#8211; &nbsp;Chinese state media say police have detained a monk and his nephew in the southwestern province of Sichuan and accused them of instigating the self-immolations of eight ethnic Tibetans.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>The official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday cited a police statement saying that 40-year-old monk Lorang Konchok from the Kirti Monastery confessed that he acted on the instructions of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and his followers.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>The Tibetan government-in-exile denied any involvement by it or the Dalai Lama.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Activists say more than 90 ethnic Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009 to protest authoritarian Chinese rule.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Chinese officials have attempted to blame the acts on the Dalai Lama, while activists say they are home-grown protests against oppression. The Dalai Lama has said he opposes all violence.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Continue reading the<\/span><strong style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/12\/09\/report-police-in-china-detain-monk-accuse-him-inciting-self-immolations-among\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">&nbsp;original article.&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Chinese state media say police have detained a monk and his nephew in the southwestern province of Sichuan and accused them of instigating the self-immolations of eight ethnic Tibetans.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}