{"id":12317,"date":"2019-12-20T12:35:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T03:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/20\/hong-kong-police-seize-10m-in-donations-intended-for-protesters"},"modified":"2019-12-20T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T03:35:40","slug":"hong-kong-police-seize-10m-in-donations-intended-for-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12317","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police seize $10m in donations intended for protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police accused of smear tactics after raiding non-profit that supports protests, alleging money-laundering<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have frozen HK$70m ($10m) from a major fund to help pro-democracy protesters, and arrested its four members, accusing them of money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>Police said their investigation focused on Spark Alliance, a non-profit online platform formed in 2016 that collects donations to provide support to political critics of the city\u2019s pro-Beijing authorities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/20\/hong-kong-police-seize-10m-in-donations-intended-for-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police accused of smear tactics after raiding non-profit that supports protests, alleging money-launderingHong Kong police have frozen HK$70m ($10m) from a major fund to help pro-democracy protesters, and arrested its four members, accusing them of mon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12318,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions\/12318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}