{"id":20044,"date":"2020-07-03T23:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/03\/hong-kong-activist-nathan-law-i-dont-know-when-ill-go-back"},"modified":"2020-07-03T23:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:14:21","slug":"hong-kong-activist-nathan-law-i-dont-know-when-ill-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20044","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activist Nathan Law: &#8216;I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll go back&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pro-democracy politician, continuing the fight from abroad, says the international front is key<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, Nathan Law was jailed for several months over his role in pro-democracy \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/sep\/30\/-sp-hong-kong-umbrella-revolution-pro-democracy-protests\">umbrella movement<\/a>\u201d protests in Hong Kong. But even in prison, he never imagined he would consider fleeing his home.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s decision to bring in a sweeping national security law that has criminalised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/hong-kong-protesters-laying-low-following-mass-arrests-china\">many forms of peaceful protest<\/a> in Hong Kong and carries penalties of up to life in prison changed that overnight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/03\/hong-kong-activist-nathan-law-i-dont-know-when-ill-go-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pro-democracy politician, continuing the fight from abroad, says the international front is keyThree years ago, Nathan Law was jailed for several months over his role in pro-democracy \u201cumbrella movement\u201d protests in Hong Kong. But even in prison, h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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-20044","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\/20044","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20045,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044\/revisions\/20045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}