{"id":21100,"date":"2020-07-29T05:12:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T20:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/benny-tai-university-of-hong-kong-fired"},"modified":"2020-07-29T05:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T20:12:28","slug":"prominent-hong-kong-professor-and-pro-democracy-activist-fired-by-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21100","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Hong Kong professor and pro-democracy activist fired by university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to fire Benny Tai, a tenured law professor, goes against previous ruling by the university senate<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Hong Kong professor and pro-democracy campaigner has been fired by his university, in a move that he and other critics described as a devastating blow to academic freedom in the city.<\/p>\n<p>It came amid growing fears that city authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/hong-kong-considers-postponing-legislative-elections-hket-reports\/ar-BB17g4cp\">may try to delay<\/a> upcoming elections to Hong Kong\u2019s legislative council, where pro-democracy candidates expect a strong showing. The vote could be postponed for up to a year, on grounds of a spike in coronavirus cases, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/benny-tai-university-of-hong-kong-fired\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to fire Benny Tai, a tenured law professor, goes against previous ruling by the university senateA prominent Hong Kong professor and pro-democracy campaigner has been fired by his university, in a move that he and other critics described as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1477,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/21100","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\/1477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21101,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21100\/revisions\/21101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}