{"id":20916,"date":"2020-07-24T08:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/european-committee-chairs-jointly-condemn-china-over-hong-kong"},"modified":"2020-07-24T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:01:01","slug":"european-committee-chairs-jointly-condemn-china-over-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20916","title":{"rendered":"European committee chairs jointly condemn China over Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairs of eight parliamentary foreign affairs committees say new security law infringes human rights<\/p>\n<p>The chairs of eight parliamentary foreign affairs committees from across Europe have written to the Chinese government in opposition to Hong Kong\u2019s new security law, saying it infringes on \u201cbasic human rights\u201d in their countries.<\/p>\n<p>The joint statement by the committee chairs \u2013 from countries including Germany, the UK, Belgium, Latvia, Norway and the European parliament itself \u2013 shows a network of parliamentarians is being constructed to shift European governments towards a harder stance on China\u2019s abuse of human rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/european-committee-chairs-jointly-condemn-china-over-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairs of eight parliamentary foreign affairs committees say new security law infringes human rightsThe chairs of eight parliamentary foreign affairs committees from across Europe have written to the Chinese government in opposition to Hong Kong\u2019s new &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,221,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916\/revisions\/20917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}