{"id":21619,"date":"2020-08-12T18:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T09:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-released-on-bail"},"modified":"2020-08-12T18:31:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T09:31:31","slug":"heros-welcome-for-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-after-release-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21619","title":{"rendered":"Hero&#8217;s welcome for Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai after release on bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily founder and pro-democracy activist returns to office following arrest under national security law<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong pro-democracy figure and media mogul Jimmy Lai received a hero\u2019s welcome as he returned to his newspaper after being arrested on allegations of foreign collusion, while Chinese state media labelled him a \u201cgenuine traitor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Lai, his sons, senior executives from his Next Digital media company and others including the activist <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\">Agnes Chow<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-over-alleged-foreign-collusion\">detained under Beijing\u2019s national security law<\/a> on Monday. Hundreds of police officers also raided the offices and newsroom of Apple Daily, the popular tabloid Lai founded, in a move decried as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/hong-kongs-independent-press-faces-dark-chapter-in-chinas-shadow\">an assault on press freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-released-on-bail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily founder and pro-democracy activist returns to office following arrest under national security lawThe Hong Kong pro-democracy figure and media mogul Jimmy Lai received a hero\u2019s welcome as he returned to his newspaper after being arrested on &#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":[41,50,457,48,238,671,672,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","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\/21619","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=21619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21620,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21619\/revisions\/21620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}