{"id":20022,"date":"2020-07-03T14:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/03\/hong-kong-activists-planning-parliament-in-exile-after-china-brings-in-security-law"},"modified":"2020-07-03T14:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:24:05","slug":"hong-kong-activists-planning-parliament-in-exile-after-china-brings-in-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20022","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activists planning &#8216;parliament in exile&#8217; after China brings in security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigner Simon Cheng, granted asylum in UK, says shadow parliament would send \u2018clear signal\u2019 to Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are discussing a plan to create an unofficial parliament-in-exile to preserve democracy and send a message to China that freedom cannot be crushed, campaigner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/simon-cheng-hong-kong-consulate-worker-tortured-in-china-is-granted-uk-asylum\">Simon Cheng<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong, a former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997, was convulsed by months of often violent, pro-democracy and anti-China demonstrations last year, resisting Chinese interference in its promised freedoms and posing the biggest political crisis for Beijing since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/03\/hong-kong-activists-planning-parliament-in-exile-after-china-brings-in-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigner Simon Cheng, granted asylum in UK, says shadow parliament would send \u2018clear signal\u2019 to BeijingHong Kong pro-democracy activists are discussing a plan to create an unofficial parliament-in-exile to preserve democracy and send a message to Chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,531,50,48,80,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-boris-johnson","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/20022","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions\/20023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}