{"id":21635,"date":"2020-08-13T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/jimmy-lai-says-swift-arrest-points-to-great-disorder-between-hong-kong-and-china-police"},"modified":"2020-08-13T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T04:00:45","slug":"jimmy-lai-says-swift-arrest-points-to-great-disorder-between-hong-kong-and-china-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21635","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai says swift arrest points to &#8216;great disorder&#8217; between Hong Kong and China police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy activist says he did not expect to be arrested so soon given the global outcry, and that it suggested chaos in the ranks<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Lai has said he was surprised to be arrested so quickly, and suggested there was \u201cgreat disorder\u201d among Chinese and Hong Kong authorities about how to handle the territory\u2019s national security law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/jimmy-lai-the-hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoon-who-is-not-afraid-to-take-on-beijing\">The 71-year-old media tycoon<\/a> and prominent pro-democracy figure was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-over-alleged-foreign-collusion\">arrested on Monday<\/a>, on suspicion of committing foreign collusion crimes in breach of Beijing\u2019s national security law, and conspiracy to defraud.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/jimmy-lai-says-swift-arrest-points-to-great-disorder-between-hong-kong-and-china-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy activist says he did not expect to be arrested so soon given the global outcry, and that it suggested chaos in the ranksJimmy Lai has said he was surprised to be arrested so quickly, and suggested there was \u201cgreat disorder\u201d among Chinese &#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/21635","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=21635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21636,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635\/revisions\/21636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}