{"id":23496,"date":"2020-10-06T19:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T10:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/06\/hong-kong-primary-school-teacher-banned-for-talking-about-independence"},"modified":"2020-10-06T19:19:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T10:19:19","slug":"hong-kong-primary-teacher-deregistered-for-talking-about-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23496","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong primary teacher deregistered &#8216;for talking about independence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher accused of violating legislation, reportedly discussing freedom of speech with pupils<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong primary school teacher has been deregistered after being accused of using pro-independence materials in class, reportedly to teach students about the concepts of freedom of speech and independence.<\/p>\n<p>The education bureau accused the teacher of a premeditated act in violation of Hong Kong\u2019s Basic Law, its de facto constitution, by having \u201cspread a message about Hong Kong independence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/06\/hong-kong-primary-school-teacher-banned-for-talking-about-independence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher accused of violating legislation, reportedly discussing freedom of speech with pupilsA Hong Kong primary school teacher has been deregistered after being accused of using pro-independence materials in class, reportedly to teach students about 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":[41,50,615,457,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-education","category-freedom-of-speech","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\/23496","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=23496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23496\/revisions\/23497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}