{"id":22612,"date":"2020-09-10T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/10\/hong-kong-police-hold-15-people-over-next-digital-share-price-surge"},"modified":"2020-09-10T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:54:43","slug":"hong-kong-police-hold-15-people-over-next-digital-share-price-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22612","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police hold 15 people over Next Digital share price surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move follows mass buying of shares in show of support for firm\u2019s owner, Jimmy Lai, when he was arrested last month<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have arrested 15 people in relation to the mass buying of Next Digital shares last month as a show of support for the company\u2019s owner, Jimmy Lai, when he was arrested under the national security law.<\/p>\n<p>It comes amid a broader crackdown on dissent and opposition to Beijing, and as Chinese authorities face accusations of denying lawyers access to Hongkongers who were arrested trying to flee to Taiwan by boat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/10\/hong-kong-police-hold-15-people-over-next-digital-share-price-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move follows mass buying of shares in show of support for firm\u2019s owner, Jimmy Lai, when he was arrested last monthHong Kong police have arrested 15 people in relation to the mass buying of Next Digital shares last month as a show of support for the com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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-22612","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\/22612","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22613,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22612\/revisions\/22613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}