{"id":17446,"date":"2020-04-22T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/fresh-hong-kong-crackdown-will-result-in-deaths-says-democracy-leader-martin-lee"},"modified":"2020-04-22T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:14:27","slug":"a-fresh-crackdown-in-hong-kong-will-result-in-deaths-says-democracy-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17446","title":{"rendered":"A fresh crackdown in Hong Kong &#8216;will result in deaths&#8217;, says democracy leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lee, who was arrested on Saturday, says protests will turn fatal if authorities go ahead with expected national security push<\/p>\n<p>Martin Lee, the 81-year-old founder of Hong Kong\u2019s Democratic party, has said there will be more fatalities and protests if authorities try to pass anti-subversion laws \u2013 which would outlaw \u201csedition, subversion and the theft of state secrets\u201d \u2013 before the September legislature election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will result in deaths for sure,\u201d he told the Guardian. \u201cThe Communist party won\u2019t show any mercy. They have already stated their stance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/fresh-hong-kong-crackdown-will-result-in-deaths-says-democracy-leader-martin-lee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lee, who was arrested on Saturday, says protests will turn fatal if authorities go ahead with expected national security pushMartin Lee, the 81-year-old founder of Hong Kong\u2019s Democratic party, has said there will be more fatalities and protests&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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-17446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17447,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446\/revisions\/17447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}