{"id":2563,"date":"2009-12-17T17:41:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T15:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2009-12-17T17:42:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T15:42:36","slug":"man-sets-himself-on-fire-to-protest-chinese-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/man-sets-himself-on-fire-to-protest-chinese-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sets himself on fire to protest Chinese Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2564\" title=\"China Demolition\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/China-Demolition-302x302-custom.jpg\" alt=\"China Demolition\" width=\"302\" height=\"302\" \/><strong>A Chinese man has protested the demolition of his home in the capital Beijing by setting himself on fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The man who is currently in hospital getting treatment for his burns and named as Xi Xinzhu set himself on fire when the demolition crew arrived at his house.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the incident will put even more pressure on China to reform rules on forced eviction in the country which led to a women dyeing last month by setting herself on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Xi Xinzhu suffered burns to 10% of his body, officials told the Chinese Communist Party-controlled People&#8217;s Daily newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Xi&#8217;s brother, Xi Xinqiang, told Reuters news agency &#8220;We tried everything to raise legal questions about this demolition through normal channels, but nobody would do anything, although there are plainly problems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese law currently gives the right to local governments to claim land as their own so that they can use it for urban development projects.<\/p>\n<p>Residents often complain that the amount of compensation offered is far below the real value of their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese man has protested the demolition of his home in the capital Beijing by setting himself on fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63],"tags":[3412,3417,3414,3415,3411,3413,3416],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","tag-capital-beijing","tag-china-demolition-protest","tag-china-forced-eviction","tag-chinese-communist-party","tag-chinese-demolition","tag-demolition-beijing","tag-man-sets-himself-on-fire-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}