{"id":24932,"date":"2020-11-19T18:37:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T09:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/hong-kong-breached-bill-of-rights-over-police-scrutiny-court-rules"},"modified":"2020-11-19T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T09:37:48","slug":"hong-kong-breached-bill-of-rights-over-police-scrutiny-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24932","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong breached bill of rights over police scrutiny, court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid ongoing unrest, judge calls for establishment of independent complaints system <\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong government breached its bill of rights on protection from torture and cruel treatments by failing to provide an independent mechanism for complaints about police, the region\u2019s high court has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>The finding comes as a report by international experts who quit a Hong Kong police brutality inquiry last year said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/19\/hong-kong-protests-police-violence-anti-government-human-rights-amnesty\">officers\u2019 crowd-control tactics<\/a> had radicalised protesters and worsened perceptions of the force\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/hong-kong-breached-bill-of-rights-over-police-scrutiny-court-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid ongoing unrest, judge calls for establishment of independent complaints system The Hong Kong government breached its bill of rights on protection from torture and cruel treatments by failing to provide an independent mechanism for complaints about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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-24932","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\/24932","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24933,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24932\/revisions\/24933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}