{"id":18529,"date":"2020-05-22T02:08:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/hong-kongs-security-laws-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-so-controversial"},"modified":"2020-05-22T02:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:08:26","slug":"hong-kongs-security-laws-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-so-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18529","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s security laws: what are they and why are they so controversial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners object to Beijing\u2019s proposed laws against \u2018treason and subversion\u2019, which follow months of protests<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s parliament has announced that it will discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/china-proposes-controversial-national-security-law-for-hong-kong\">controversial national security laws<\/a> for Hong Kong in a dramatic escalation of China\u2019s efforts to place the semi-autonomous territory under its control and curtail pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/hong-kongs-security-laws-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-so-controversial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners object to Beijing\u2019s proposed laws against \u2018treason and subversion\u2019, which follow months of protestsBeijing\u2019s parliament has announced that it will discuss controversial national security laws for Hong Kong in a dramatic escalation of China\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1326,"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":[41,50,457,48,53,86,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-law","category-protest","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\/18529","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\/1326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529\/revisions\/18530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}