{"id":26439,"date":"2021-01-07T14:39:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/07\/hong-kong-police-release-american-citizen-arrested-in-purge-of-democracy-figures"},"modified":"2021-01-07T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T05:39:13","slug":"hong-kong-police-release-us-lawyer-arrested-with-democracy-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26439","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police release US lawyer arrested with democracy figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Clancey freed pending further inquiries after authorities launched unprecedented crackdown<\/p>\n<p>One of the 53 people arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the American lawyer John Clancey, has been released without charge pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Police were expected to begin releasing the remaining detainees on Thursday, according to local media, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown\">an unprecedented round-up of politicians, campaigners, and activists<\/a> over accusations that their holding of a democratic poll violated the national security law (NSL) imposed by China\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/07\/hong-kong-police-release-american-citizen-arrested-in-purge-of-democracy-figures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Clancey freed pending further inquiries after authorities launched unprecedented crackdownOne of the 53 people arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the American lawyer John Clancey, has been released without charge pending further inquiries.Police &#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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439","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=26439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26441,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439\/revisions\/26441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}