{"id":21226,"date":"2020-08-01T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/china-hong-kong-security-law-american-citizen-exiles"},"modified":"2020-08-01T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:37:10","slug":"china-uses-hong-kong-security-law-against-us-and-uk-based-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21226","title":{"rendered":"China uses Hong Kong security law against US and UK-based activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Arrest warrant issued for campaigner and US citizen Samuel Chu<\/li>\n<li>Britons also among those wanted for \u2018incitement to secession\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a> police have issued arrest warrants for six pro-democracy activists living in exile, the first time the city\u2019s authorities have used a sweeping new law to target campaigners living outside Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>They include Samuel Chu, an American citizen who lives in the US, Nathan Law, a prominent campaigner who recently relocated to the UK after fleeing Hong Kong, and Simon Cheng, a former British consular staffer who was granted asylum in the UK after alleging he was tortured in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/china-hong-kong-security-law-american-citizen-exiles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrest warrant issued for campaigner and US citizen Samuel ChuBritons also among those wanted for \u2018incitement to secession\u2019Hong Kong police have issued arrest warrants for six pro-democracy activists living in exile, the first time the city\u2019s authoriti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1114,"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":[41,50,48,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-us-news","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\/21226","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\/1114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21227,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21226\/revisions\/21227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}