{"id":19451,"date":"2020-06-18T09:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T00:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/grave-cause-for-concern-hongkongers-could-be-extradited-to-china-under-new-security-law"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T00:06:28","slug":"grave-cause-for-concern-hongkongers-could-be-extradited-to-china-under-new-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19451","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Grave cause for concern\u2019: Hongkongers could be extradited to China under new security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hong Kong delegate to top Chinese legislative body says people who breach new law could be sent to mainland if Beijing \u2018thinks it necessary\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s proposal to take charge of \u201cserious\u201d breaches of the new national security law in Hong Kong will sabotage the city\u2019s autonomy, its rule of law and freedoms and threaten its unique status as an Asian financial hub, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s parliament passed a plan in late May to impose a national security law on Hong Kong to target \u201cacts and activities\u201d that it sees as threatening national security, including secession, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/grave-cause-for-concern-hongkongers-could-be-extradited-to-china-under-new-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hong Kong delegate to top Chinese legislative body says people who breach new law could be sent to mainland if Beijing \u2018thinks it necessary\u2019 China\u2019s proposal to take charge of \u201cserious\u201d breaches of the new national security law in Hong Kong will sabot&#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/19451","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=19451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19452,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19451\/revisions\/19452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}