{"id":26366,"date":"2021-01-06T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:28:16","slug":"dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26366","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures arrested in sweeping crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners and politicians held in wave of arrests under the national security law<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/hong-kong-arrests-who-are-the-pro-democracy-activists-being-targeted\">Who are the pro-democracy activists being targeted?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 50 people, including pro-democracy politicians and campaigners, have been arrested in early-morning raids across Hong Kong in a crackdown by authorities that was condemned as a \u201cdespicable\u201d assault on freedom.<\/p>\n<p>In a police operation involving more than 1,000 officers, the 53 individuals<strong> <\/strong> were detained under the territory\u2019s controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">national security law<\/a> (NSL), accused of \u201csubverting state power\u201d by holding primaries for pro-democracy candidates for the Hong Kong election. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners and politicians held in wave of arrests under the national security lawWho are the pro-democracy activists being targeted?More than 50 people, including pro-democracy politicians and campaigners, have been arrested in early-morning raids ac&#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-26366","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\/26366","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=26366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366\/revisions\/26407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}