{"id":25588,"date":"2020-12-11T14:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T05:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/11\/jimmy-lai-charged-under-national-security-law-as-hong-kong-crackdown-worsens"},"modified":"2020-12-11T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T05:59:24","slug":"jimmy-lai-charged-under-national-security-law-as-hong-kong-crackdown-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25588","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai charged under national security law as Hong Kong crackdown worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media mogul accused of foreign collusion on same day teen activist found guilty of defiling China\u2019s flag after throwing it on the ground at protest<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s crackdown on dissent has escalated, with national security charges laid against media mogul Jimmy Lai, and a guilty verdict for teenage activist Tony Chung for defiling China\u2019s flag.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon local media reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/jimmy-lai-the-hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoon-who-is-not-afraid-to-take-on-beijing\">Lai, 73,<\/a> was charged with foreign collusion offences and endangering national security under the draconian national security law (NSL) imposed by Beijing in June. Lai, who was denied bail over separate matters last week and jailed on remand, will appear in court on the NSL charges on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/11\/jimmy-lai-charged-under-national-security-law-as-hong-kong-crackdown-worsens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media mogul accused of foreign collusion on same day teen activist found guilty of defiling China\u2019s flag after throwing it on the ground at protestHong Kong\u2019s crackdown on dissent has escalated, with national security charges laid against media mogul J&#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":[50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588","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=25588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588\/revisions\/25589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}