{"id":24496,"date":"2020-11-06T04:10:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/05\/hong-kong-police-launch-hotline-for-residents-to-inform-on"},"modified":"2020-11-06T04:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T19:10:47","slug":"hong-kong-police-launch-hotline-for-residents-to-inform-on-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24496","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police launch hotline for residents to inform on each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tip-offs for alleged breaches of national security law could tear city apart, says one lawyer<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have launched a hotline for the city\u2019s residents to inform anonymously on anyone they allege has broken a sweeping new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">national security law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the measure has disturbing echoes of surveillance methods used in mainland China, will deepen divisions in the city and could be exploited by individuals trying to settle personal, business or political scores.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/05\/hong-kong-police-launch-hotline-for-residents-to-inform-on\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip-offs for alleged breaches of national security law could tear city apart, says one lawyerHong Kong police have launched a hotline for the city\u2019s residents to inform anonymously on anyone they allege has broken a sweeping new national security law.C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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-24496","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\/24496","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496\/revisions\/24497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}