{"id":22805,"date":"2020-09-17T19:41:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T10:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/17\/hong-kong-activist-denied-bail-after-being-charge-with-sedition-tam-tak-chi"},"modified":"2020-09-17T19:41:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T10:41:33","slug":"hong-kong-activist-denied-bail-after-being-charged-with-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22805","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activist denied bail after being charged with sedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colonial-era penal code used as Tam Tak-chi\u2019s alleged offences took place before new national security law was imposed<\/p>\n<p>An activist who was the first person to be charged with sedition in Hong Kong since 1997 has been denied bail before his trial for \u201cuttering seditious words\u201d and advocating for Hong Kong independence.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors alleged that activist Tam Tak-chi used anti-police slogans as well as the common protest phrases \u201cliberate Hong Kong\u201d and \u201cfive demands, not one less\u201d in January, and at street booths between March and July on seven occasions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/17\/hong-kong-activist-denied-bail-after-being-charge-with-sedition-tam-tak-chi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonial-era penal code used as Tam Tak-chi\u2019s alleged offences took place before new national security law was imposedAn activist who was the first person to be charged with sedition in Hong Kong since 1997 has been denied bail before his trial for \u201cut&#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":[41,50,48,53,86,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-law","category-protest","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\/22805","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=22805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22806,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22805\/revisions\/22806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}