{"id":23302,"date":"2020-09-30T19:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T10:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/we-want-our-son-back-families-of-detained-hong-kong-activists-left-in-the-dark"},"modified":"2020-09-30T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:23:06","slug":"we-want-our-son-back-families-of-detained-hong-kong-activists-left-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23302","title":{"rendered":"Families plead for Hong Kong activists accused of trying to flee by speedboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Hong Kong 12\u2019 &#8211; arrested for allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan &#8211; have become the latest flashpoint for protesters<\/p>\n<p>The family of a Hong Kong activist detained in China after allegedly attempting to flee to Taiwan by speedboat say they have had no communication from him and are relying on a piece of paper from Chinese authorities as confirmation of his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Li was among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/ten-arrested-under-hong-kong-security-law-while-trying-to-flee-to-taiwan\">12 people caught by Chinese coastguards<\/a> on 23 August. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2020\/sep\/29\/the-hong-kong-arrested\">had been arrested<\/a> earlier that month under Hong Kong\u2019s newly introduced national security law, after which the authorities had confiscated his passport before releasing him on bail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/we-want-our-son-back-families-of-detained-hong-kong-activists-left-in-the-dark\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Hong Kong 12\u2019 &#8211; arrested for allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan &#8211; have become the latest flashpoint for protestersThe family of a Hong Kong activist detained in China after allegedly attempting to flee to Taiwan by speedboat say they have had no c&#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-23302","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\/23302","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=23302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23310,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23302\/revisions\/23310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}