{"id":26386,"date":"2021-01-06T15:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T06:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/american-lawyer-arrested-by-hong-kong-police-in-national-security-crackdown"},"modified":"2021-01-06T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T06:08:56","slug":"american-lawyer-arrested-by-hong-kong-police-in-national-security-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26386","title":{"rendered":"American lawyer arrested by Hong Kong police in national security crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Clancey, the chairman of the Asian Human Rights Commission, detained on day that saw dozens of pro-democracy activists arrested <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown\">Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures arrested in sweeping crackdown<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong police have arrested an American lawyer under the city\u2019s national security law, according to multiple sources, hours after authorities arrested dozens of pro-democracy activists as part of a sweeping crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>John Clancey, the chairman of the Asian Human Rights Commission and a member of a group linked to pro-democracy protesters, was arrested when police raided the law firm Ho, Tse, Wai &amp; Partners, a source at his law firm told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/american-lawyer-arrested-by-hong-kong-police-in-national-security-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Clancey, the chairman of the Asian Human Rights Commission, detained on day that saw dozens of pro-democracy activists arrested Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures arrested in sweeping crackdownHong Kong police have arrested an American lawy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386\/revisions\/26388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}