{"id":19865,"date":"2020-06-30T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T02:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/more-hongkongers-apply-to-be-refugees-in-australia-as-security-law-passes"},"modified":"2020-06-30T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T02:17:37","slug":"more-hongkongers-apply-to-be-refugees-in-australia-as-security-law-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19865","title":{"rendered":"More Hongkongers apply to be refugees in Australia as security law passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters with pro-democracy movement \u2018face the dangers of prosecution\u2019, says advocate, as protection visa applications increase<\/p>\n<p>Protesters involved in Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement are applying for Australia\u2019s protection in growing numbers, official Australian government data suggests.<\/p>\n<p>In March, 27 Hong Kong special administrative region passport holders applied for permanent protection visas. The following month, 17 more filed claims, even as the total number of protection visa lodgments fell dramatically with Australia\u2019s international border closure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/more-hongkongers-apply-to-be-refugees-in-australia-as-security-law-passes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters with pro-democracy movement \u2018face the dangers of prosecution\u2019, says advocate, as protection visa applications increaseProtesters involved in Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement are applying for Australia\u2019s protection in growing numbers, offic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1408,"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":[41,43,388,324,50,48,80,494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-refugees"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865","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\/1408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19866,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865\/revisions\/19866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}