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The Australian facing Chinese jail for ‘headbutting cop’ · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: The Front's afternoon headlines. An Australian businessman is facing a
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  Speaker 1: jail term in China after allegedly headbutting a policeman. Nick Wilshire,
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  Speaker 1: who has lived in China for 24 years and is
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  Speaker 1: deputy chairman of the China-Australia Chamber of Commerce, was trying
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  Speaker 1: to intervene in the case of a friend's father who
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  Speaker 1: had been convicted of fraud. Wilshire is a well-known figure
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  Speaker 1: in Chinese business circles. He's a 46-year-old father of three
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  Speaker 1: who's fluent in Mandarin and often helps expats and foreigners
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  Speaker 1: navigate China's legal system. Earlier this year, he was approached
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  Speaker 1: by an American citizen, San Francisco-based Ji Yusen, to help
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  Speaker 1: his father, Ji Heping, who is serving an 18-year prison
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  Speaker 1: sentence in Ganzhou for allegedly stealing factory funds. Wilshire went
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  Speaker 1: to court to ask for the father, Ji Heping, to
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  Speaker 1: be released on bail. but he says the court staff
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  Speaker 1: harassed him and he ended up in a scuffle with
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  Speaker 1: security officers who wrestled him to the ground. He says
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  Speaker 1: a policeman kicked him hard in the shins. Wilshire says
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  Speaker 1: he raised his head and accidentally head-butted the cop. Wilshire
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  Speaker 1: spent two weeks in custody and is now on bail,
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  Speaker 1: but the Australian Embassy says it can't help him. That's
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