{"id":17486,"date":"2020-04-24T13:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/24\/hong-kong-being-watched-closely-over-activist-arrests-says-un"},"modified":"2020-04-24T13:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:21:54","slug":"hong-kong-being-watched-closely-over-activist-arrests-says-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17486","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong being watched &#8216;closely&#8217; over activist arrests, says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN human rights watchdog OHCHR reminds the territory that charges against prominent pro-democracy figures have not gone unnoticed<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations human rights watchdog is \u201cclosely following\u201d the arrest and charging of 15 pro-democracy leaders in Hong Kong, reminding the territory\u2019s government of its obligations to international law.<\/p>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/18\/police-in-hong-kong-arrest-14-activists-amid-autonomy-warnings\">authorities arrested pro-democracy leaders<\/a> and activists including 81-year-old Martin Lee QC, the founder of Hong Kong\u2019s democratic party and internationally recognised advocate, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/hong-kong-using-covid-19-crisis-as-golden-opportunity-for-crackdown-says-arrested-leader\">veteran politician and activist Lee Cheuk Yan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/24\/hong-kong-being-watched-closely-over-activist-arrests-says-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN human rights watchdog OHCHR reminds the territory that charges against prominent pro-democracy figures have not gone unnoticedThe United Nations human rights watchdog is \u201cclosely following\u201d the arrest and charging of 15 pro-democracy leaders in &#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":[41,50,48,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486","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=17486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17487,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions\/17487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}