{"id":19984,"date":"2020-07-02T12:37:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T03:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/simon-cheng-hong-kong-consulate-worker-tortured-in-china-is-granted-uk-asylum"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T03:37:01","slug":"simon-cheng-hong-kong-consulate-worker-tortured-in-china-is-granted-uk-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19984","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cheng, Hong Kong consulate worker &#8216;tortured&#8217; in China, is granted UK asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British overseas national says he is \u2018grateful for the courage shown by the UK\u2019 in approving application<\/p>\n<p>The UK has granted asylum to Simon Cheng, a former Hong Kong consulate worker who alleged he was tortured in China and accused of inciting political unrest in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng, a British overseas national, said on Wednesday evening his application for asylum had been approved on 26 June by the UK government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/simon-cheng-hong-kong-consulate-worker-tortured-in-china-is-granted-uk-asylum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British overseas national says he is \u2018grateful for the courage shown by the UK\u2019 in approving applicationThe UK has granted asylum to Simon Cheng, a former Hong Kong consulate worker who alleged he was tortured in China and accused of inciting polit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[50,48,53,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19985,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions\/19985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}