{"id":15147,"date":"2020-02-28T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/28\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-on-charges-of-illegal-assembly"},"modified":"2020-02-28T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T02:50:14","slug":"hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-on-charges-of-illegal-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15147","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested on charges of illegal assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai, who was arrested with two other activists, has been a major financial patron of Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have arrested three veteran pro-democracy figures for taking part in an unauthorised anti-government march last year amid the city\u2019s most serious political crisis for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Lai, the founder of Next Media, which publishes the popular, anti-government Apple Daily newspaper, was picked up by police on Friday morning for taking part in a march banned by police on 31 August, according to public broadcaster RTHK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/28\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-on-charges-of-illegal-assembly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai, who was arrested with two other activists, has been a major financial patron of Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movementHong Kong police have arrested three veteran pro-democracy figures for taking part in an unauthorised anti-government march last year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1057,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147","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\/1057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15182,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147\/revisions\/15182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}