{"id":2052,"date":"2011-01-18T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reaev.de\/wordpress\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2017-05-01T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T07:19:51","slug":"chinese-citizen-to-face-ivory-smuggling-charges-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/chinese-citizen-to-face-ivory-smuggling-charges-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese citizen to face ivory-smuggling charges in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi &#8211; A Chinese citizen was due to be appear in a Kenyan court Tuesday to face charges of attempting to smuggle 65 kilogrammes of ivory through Nairobi&#8217;s international airport, the Kenya Wildlife Service said. <\/p>\n<p>Wang Zheng, 29, was arrested late Monday at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as he caught a connecting flight to Guangzhou following his arrival from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, KWS spokesman Paul Udoto said in an emailed statement. <\/p>\n<p>Zheng was allegedly carrying 278 pieces of worked and raw ivory. He may also be charged with attempting to bribe officials, Udoto said. <\/p>\n<p>The ivory trade has been banned since 1989, but illegal sales have thrived with demand being fuelled largely by the Far East. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monstersandcritics.com\/global\/img\/copyright_notice.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> Source: www.monstersandcritics.com\/news\/asiapacific\/news\/article_1612508.php\/Chinese-citizen-to-face-ivory-smuggling-charges-in-Kenya<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/chinese-citizen-to-face-ivory-smuggling-charges-in-kenya\/\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" font=\"tahoma\"><\/fb:like>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi &#8211; A Chinese citizen was due to be appear in a Kenyan court Tuesday to face charges of attempting to smuggle 65 kilogrammes of ivory through Nairobi&#8217;s international airport, the Kenya Wildlife Service said. Wang Zheng, 29, was arrested late Monday at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as he caught a connecting flight to Guangzhou &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/chinese-citizen-to-face-ivory-smuggling-charges-in-kenya\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eChinese citizen to face ivory-smuggling charges in Kenya\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wilderei"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8895,"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/8895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaev.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}