{"id":19904,"date":"2020-07-01T03:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect"},"modified":"2020-07-01T03:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:45:29","slug":"controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19904","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Hong Kong national security law comes into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say broad scope of crimes targeted by law marks full takeover by China<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has imposed a controversial national security law on Hong Kong, giving the Chinese government sweeping powers over the semi-autonomous territory in a move critics say will crush its freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Tuesday, China unveiled the full text of the anti-sedition law which targets the crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, with penalties as severe as life in prison.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say broad scope of crimes targeted by law marks full takeover by ChinaBeijing has imposed a controversial national security law on Hong Kong, giving the Chinese government sweeping powers over the semi-autonomous territory in a move critics say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"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-19904","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\/19904","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\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19918,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19904\/revisions\/19918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}