{"id":18766,"date":"2020-05-28T12:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T03:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/china-vote-npc-national-security-laws-hong-kong-us-protest"},"modified":"2020-05-28T19:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T10:50:57","slug":"chinese-parliament-approves-controversial-hong-kong-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18766","title":{"rendered":"Chinese parliament approves controversial Hong Kong security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move paves way for anti-sedition laws, which human rights advocates say will threaten city\u2019s freedoms, as US opposition builds<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s legislature has approved&nbsp;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/beijing-to-impose-hong-kong-security-laws-without-delay\">controversial national security law<\/a> for Hong Kong, dealing what critics have said is a \u201ckiller blow\u201d to the city\u2019s autonomy and freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, delegates of China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress broke out into applause in Beijing\u2019s Great Hall of the People after voting through a draft decision that paves the way for sweeping anti-sedition laws to be directly enacted in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/china-vote-npc-national-security-laws-hong-kong-us-protest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move paves way for anti-sedition laws, which human rights advocates say will threaten city\u2019s freedoms, as US opposition buildsChina\u2019s legislature has approved&nbsp;a controversial national security law for Hong Kong, dealing what critics have said is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,48,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-us-news","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\/18766","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18774,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18766\/revisions\/18774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}