{"id":26239,"date":"2020-12-31T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/31\/hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-returned-to-jail-until-at-least-february"},"modified":"2020-12-31T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T10:12:09","slug":"hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-returned-to-jail-until-at-least-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26239","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai returned to jail until at least February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court grants prosecutors\u2019 request to appeal against bail order on media mogul<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been returned to jail after the city\u2019s highest court ruled in favour of prosecutors\u2019 request for leave to appeal against his already highly restrictive bail order.<\/p>\n<p>The decision will keep the 76-year-old in jail until at least February, even though he has not been accused of a violent crime and is not considered a flight risk.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/31\/hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-returned-to-jail-until-at-least-february\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court grants prosecutors\u2019 request to appeal against bail order on media mogulThe Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been returned to jail after the city\u2019s highest court ruled in favour of prosecutors\u2019 request for leave to ap&#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-26239","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\/26239","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=26239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26241,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions\/26241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}