{"id":19895,"date":"2020-06-30T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-activists-shut-down-protest-groups-after-china-passes-security-law"},"modified":"2020-06-30T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T09:51:00","slug":"hong-kong-activists-shut-down-protest-groups-after-china-passes-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19895","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activists shut down protest groups after China passes security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners fear \u2018disturbing\u2019 legislation aimed at quashing protests will target them<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong activists have deleted social media profiles and closed down campaign groups after Beijing passed a new security law for the territory that many fear could land them in jail.<\/p>\n<p>The standing committee of the National People\u2019s Congress approved the measure on Tuesday morning and it is expected to be enacted in Hong Kong late Tuesday, on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of its return to Chinese rule.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-activists-shut-down-protest-groups-after-china-passes-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners fear \u2018disturbing\u2019 legislation aimed at quashing protests will target themHong Kong activists have deleted social media profiles and closed down campaign groups after Beijing passed a new security law for the territory that many fear could l&#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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/19895","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=19895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19896,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895\/revisions\/19896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}