{"id":25027,"date":"2020-11-23T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T05:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/23\/hong-kong-protests-joshua-wong-guilty-police-hq-protests-agnes-chow-ivan-lam"},"modified":"2020-11-23T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T05:46:14","slug":"hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-faces-jail-after-guilty-plea-over-police-hq-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25027","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong faces jail after guilty plea over police HQ protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Wong urges everyone to \u2018hang in there, add oil\u2019 as he, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam are taken away ahead of sentencing next week<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam face the prospect of jail after pleading guilty to charges relating to protests outside a police station last year.<\/p>\n<p>The trial was scheduled to begin on Monday, but after pleading guilty they were taken away ahead of a sentencing hearing on Wednesday next week, where they face a penalty of up to five years in prison. Wong said he expected to be jailed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/23\/hong-kong-protests-joshua-wong-guilty-police-hq-protests-agnes-chow-ivan-lam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Wong urges everyone to \u2018hang in there, add oil\u2019 as he, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam are taken away ahead of sentencing next weekHong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam face the prospect of jail after pleading guilty to charges rela&#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":[41,50,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027","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=25027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25043,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027\/revisions\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}