{"id":57647,"date":"2025-08-10T12:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57647\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:58:06","slug":"china-calls-for-tough-penalties-over-attack-on-student-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57647\/","title":{"rendered":"China calls for tough penalties over attack on student in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China has urged authorities in Australia to \u201cseverely punish\u201d those responsible for an attack on a Chinese student in the southern state of Tasmania last week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tasmanian police said on Friday that two 14-year-old girls had been charged over a serious assault on a 33-year-old man at a Hobart shopping precinct on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The man was being treated for head injuries in Royal Hobart Hospital and was in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Earlier in the week, four male youths from southern Tasmania \u2013 two aged 14 and two aged 15 \u2013 were arrested and jointly charged with Criminal Code Assault and bailed with conditions, police said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Detective Inspector Mark Burke said that all the alleged offenders in relation to the incident had now been charged.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Chinese consulate general in Melbourne identified the victim of the attack as a student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has urged authorities in Australia to \u201cseverely punish\u201d those responsible for an attack on a Chinese student&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,651,512,47387,47389,47391,47390,47393,2485,12804,647,44,47388,670,2801,47392],"class_list":["post-57647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane","tag-china","tag-chinese-citizens","tag-chinese-community","tag-chinese-consulate-general-in-melbourne","tag-chinese-couple","tag-chinese-students","tag-gold-coast","tag-hobart","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-royal-hobart-hospital","tag-sydney","tag-tasmania","tag-tasmanian-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}