{"id":19214,"date":"2020-06-12T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/dominic-raab-urges-china-to-heed-uks-hong-kong-warnings"},"modified":"2020-06-12T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T18:00:06","slug":"dominic-raab-urges-china-to-heed-uks-hong-kong-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19214","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Raab urges China to heed UK&#8217;s Hong Kong warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign secretary calls for new laws to be dropped and says Beijing \u2018tortured\u2019 UK employee<\/p>\n<p>The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has urged China to step back from the brink by abandoning plans to impose new security laws on Hong Kong, as he accused Beijing of treating a member of Foreign Office staff in a way \u201camounting to torture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Raab attacked the Chinese government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/former-uk-official-simon-cheng-in-hong-kong-tortured-in-15-day-china-ordeal\">brutal <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/former-uk-official-simon-cheng-in-hong-kong-tortured-in-15-day-china-ordeal\">treatment of <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/former-uk-official-simon-cheng-in-hong-kong-tortured-in-15-day-china-ordeal\">Simon Cheng<\/a>, a former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong, who was kept in custody for 15 days after travelling to the mainland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/dominic-raab-urges-china-to-heed-uks-hong-kong-warnings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign secretary calls for new laws to be dropped and says Beijing \u2018tortured\u2019 UK employeeThe foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has urged China to step back from the brink by abandoning plans to impose new security laws on Hong Kong, as he accused Beiji&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,950,48,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-dominic-raab","category-hong-kong","category-uk-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\/19214","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions\/19215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}