{"id":26346,"date":"2021-01-05T18:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/china-moves-to-punish-lawyers-who-helped-hong-kong-activists"},"modified":"2021-01-05T18:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T09:50:21","slug":"china-moves-to-punish-lawyers-who-helped-hong-kong-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26346","title":{"rendered":"China moves to punish lawyers who helped Hong Kong activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities threaten to revoke licences of pair who assisted group of 12 that tried to flee to Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities have threatened to end the careers of two lawyers who assisted 12 activists who tried to flee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a> for Taiwan last August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/30\/hong-kong-china-jails-1o-who-fled-by-boat-to-taiwan-for-up-to-three-years\">10 of whom were given jail terms<\/a> by a Chinese court last week.<\/p>\n<p>Ren Quanniu \u2013 who also represented the Wuhan citizen journalist Zhang Zhan \u2013 and Lu Siwei received notices from local departments of justice on Monday that authorities intended to revoke their licences and they had three days to arrange for a defence hearing. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/china-moves-to-punish-lawyers-who-helped-hong-kong-activists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities threaten to revoke licences of pair who assisted group of 12 that tried to flee to TaiwanChinese authorities have threatened to end the careers of two lawyers who assisted 12 activists who tried to flee Hong Kong for Taiwan last August, 10 &#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":[41,50,48,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-taiwan","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\/26346","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=26346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26349,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346\/revisions\/26349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}