{"id":22835,"date":"2020-09-18T18:26:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T09:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/18\/australian-judge-steps-down-from-hong-kong-court-over-new-national-security-law"},"modified":"2020-09-18T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T09:26:28","slug":"australian-judge-steps-down-from-hong-kong-court-over-new-national-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22835","title":{"rendered":"Australian judge steps down from Hong Kong court over new national security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Spigelman resigned from Hong Kong appeal court citing concerns with new law imposed by China<\/p>\n<p>Australian judge James Spigelman has resigned from Hong Kong\u2019s highest court, reportedly citing concerns over the national security law imposed on the region by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation comes amid a deteriorating political and judicial environment in Hong Kong, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/hong-kong-security-law-may-break-international-laws-china-human-rights-un\">the imposition of a national security law<\/a> by the central government in Beijing has sparked concern and confusion about Hong Kong\u2019s rule of law as a semi-autonomous state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/18\/australian-judge-steps-down-from-hong-kong-court-over-new-national-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Spigelman resigned from Hong Kong appeal court citing concerns with new law imposed by ChinaAustralian judge James Spigelman has resigned from Hong Kong\u2019s highest court, reportedly citing concerns over the national security law imposed on the reg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,43,50,48,53,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-law"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22836,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835\/revisions\/22836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}