{"id":21605,"date":"2020-08-12T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T04:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/agnes-chow-the-hong-kong-activist-who-gave-up-uk-citizenship-to-fight-for-democracy"},"modified":"2020-08-12T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T04:46:18","slug":"agnes-chow-the-hong-kong-activist-who-gave-up-uk-citizenship-to-fight-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21605","title":{"rendered":"Agnes Chow: the Hong Kong activist who gave up UK citizenship to fight for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demosisto co-founder and 23-year-old protest veteran faces an uncertain future after being arrested under new security laws<\/p>\n<p>Agnes Chow, the Hong Kong activist arrested this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-over-alleged-foreign-collusion\">along with media tycoon Jimmy Lai<\/a>, has become a prominent figure in the city\u2019s democracy movement in recent years, including as co-founder of the Demosisto political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say that it\u2019s very obvious that the regime and the government are using the national security law to suppress political dissidents,\u201d said Chow, after being bailed following her arrest on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces a vague offence under the national security laws imposed by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/agnes-chow-the-hong-kong-activist-who-gave-up-uk-citizenship-to-fight-for-democracy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demosisto co-founder and 23-year-old protest veteran faces an uncertain future after being arrested under new security lawsAgnes Chow, the Hong Kong activist arrested this week along with media tycoon Jimmy Lai, has become a prominent figure in the cit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[50,48,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21606,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions\/21606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}