{"type":"video","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Dailymotion","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com","title":"Human-rights lawyer goes on trial in China","description":"A prominent human-rights lawyer has gone on trial in China facing charges of \"inciting a disturbance\" for doing legal defence work for farmers who have had their land seized by government officials.Ni Yulan and her husband, Dong Ji-Cheen, were detained in April along with hundreds of other activists, but their trial lacks transparency.Early on Thursday morning, police vans brought Ni to a courthouse in Beijing, but journalists who arrived to cover the trial and diplomats who had been sent to observe were quickly stopped from filming, ushered into a building across the street and told they would not be allowed to film or report.Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from the Chinese capital.","author_name":"Al Jazeera English","author_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/aljazeeraenglish","width":480,"height":269,"html":"<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xt43qa&\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/s2.dmcdn.net\/v\/2wYZY1gRK4hZ4-dBy\/x720","thumbnail_width":1281,"thumbnail_height":720}