{"id":17377,"date":"2020-04-20T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/hong-kong-using-covid-19-crisis-as-golden-opportunity-for-crackdown-says-arrested-leader"},"modified":"2020-04-20T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:34:08","slug":"hong-kong-using-covid-19-crisis-as-golden-opportunity-for-crackdown-says-arrested-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17377","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong using Covid-19 crisis as &#8216;golden opportunity&#8217; for crackdown, says arrested leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Cheuk Yan says recent arrests help ensure potential candidates cannot run in upcoming elections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beijing and the Hong Kong government are using the pandemic as a \u201cgolden opportunity\u201d to crack down on dissent and the growing pro-democracy movement, according to a senior protest leader arrested over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of Lee Cheuk Yan, a veteran politician and activist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/18\/police-in-hong-kong-arrest-14-activists-amid-autonomy-warnings\">and 14 other high-profile people on Saturday<\/a>, came amid a run of acts by authorities seen as alarming intrusions on Hong Kong\u2019s autonomy, ahead of elections in September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/hong-kong-using-covid-19-crisis-as-golden-opportunity-for-crackdown-says-arrested-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Cheuk Yan says recent arrests help ensure potential candidates cannot run in upcoming electionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBeijing and the Hong Kong government are using the pandemic as a \u201cgolden opportunity\u201d to crac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,457,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","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\/17377","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17378,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions\/17378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}