{"id":22111,"date":"2020-08-27T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/hong-kong-free-press-journalist-denied-visa-amid-fears-for-media-freedom"},"modified":"2020-08-27T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T04:00:42","slug":"hong-kong-free-press-journalist-denied-visa-amid-fears-for-media-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22111","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Free Press journalist denied visa amid fears for media freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish journalist Aaron McNicholas\u2019s visa was rejected in what\u2019s believed to the first such case at a local title<\/p>\n<p>After months of reassurance that Beijing\u2019s national security law would not affect Hong Kong\u2019s free press, the government has denied a visa to local media outlet, the Hong Kong Free Press.<\/p>\n<p>The English-language outlet had sought to employ a new editor, Aaron Mc Nicholas, an Irish journalist already based in Hong Kong. However the immigration department rejected an application to transfer his work visa after an almost six-month wait, without giving an official reason.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/hong-kong-free-press-journalist-denied-visa-amid-fears-for-media-freedom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish journalist Aaron McNicholas\u2019s visa was rejected in what\u2019s believed to the first such case at a local titleAfter months of reassurance that Beijing\u2019s national security law would not affect Hong Kong\u2019s free press, the government has denied a visa t&#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":[41,50,48,238,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","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\/22111","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=22111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22115,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111\/revisions\/22115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}