{"id":21136,"date":"2020-07-30T03:36:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T18:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/29\/hong-kong-student-activists-arrested-under-new-security-law"},"modified":"2020-07-31T01:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T16:09:15","slug":"hong-kong-student-activists-arrested-under-new-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21136","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: 12 pro-democracy candidates banned under security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disqualifications and growing number of activist arrests under law imposed by China signal curtailment of city\u2019s civic freedoms<\/p>\n<p>Twelve pro-democracy candidates have been disqualified from Hong Kong\u2019s upcoming legislative elections, in the most sweeping curtailment of the city\u2019s electoral freedoms to date.<\/p>\n<p>The government said the candidates were not fit to run for office on the grounds that they had advocated the city\u2019s independence, solicited intervention by foreign governments or opposed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">new national security law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/29\/hong-kong-student-activists-arrested-under-new-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disqualifications and growing number of activist arrests under law imposed by China signal curtailment of city\u2019s civic freedomsTwelve pro-democracy candidates have been disqualified from Hong Kong\u2019s upcoming legislative elections, in the most sweeping &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"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":[41,50,950,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-dominic-raab","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\/21136","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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21176,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21136\/revisions\/21176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}