{"id":20007,"date":"2020-07-03T03:18:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T18:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/leading-democracy-campaigner-nathan-law-leaves-hong-kong"},"modified":"2020-07-03T03:18:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T18:18:36","slug":"leading-democracy-campaigner-nathan-law-leaves-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20007","title":{"rendered":"Leading democracy campaigner Nathan Law leaves Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activist says he fled city because he faced \u2018unknown dangers\u2019 under national security law<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Law, one of Hong Kong\u2019s leading democracy campaigners, has left the city, as protestors and other residents weigh up their future and wait for Britain to lay out details of its offer of a path to citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Law said on social media that he had left Hong Kong for an undisclosed location because he faced \u201cunknown dangers\u201d, after China brought in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/china-passes-controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law\">sweeping national security law<\/a> for the city that criminalises much of the protest movement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/leading-democracy-campaigner-nathan-law-leaves-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist says he fled city because he faced \u2018unknown dangers\u2019 under national security lawNathan Law, one of Hong Kong\u2019s leading democracy campaigners, has left the city, as protestors and other residents weigh up their future and wait for Britain to la&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"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-20007","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\/20007","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20007\/revisions\/20008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}