{"id":26565,"date":"2021-01-10T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/10\/hong-kong-security-law-being-used-to-eliminate-dissent-say-us-uk-australia-and-canada"},"modified":"2021-01-10T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:43:42","slug":"hong-kong-security-law-being-used-to-eliminate-dissent-say-us-uk-australia-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26565","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong security law being used to &#8216;eliminate dissent&#8217; say US, UK, Australia and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Joint statement by four foreign ministers expresses \u2018serious concern\u2019 about national security law which saw dozens of activists arrested last week<\/p>\n<p>The foreign ministers of Australia, the United States, Britain and Canada have issued a joint statement expressing \u201cserious concern\u201d about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown\">arrest of 55 democracy activists and supporters<\/a> in Hong Kong last week.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were by far the largest such action taken under a national security law (NSL) that China imposed on the semi-autonomous territory a little more than six months ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/10\/hong-kong-security-law-being-used-to-eliminate-dissent-say-us-uk-australia-and-canada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Joint statement by four foreign ministers expresses \u2018serious concern\u2019 about national security law which saw dozens of activists arrested last weekThe foreign ministers of Australia, the United States, Britain and Canada have issued a joint statement e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-26565","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\/26565","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26569,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26565\/revisions\/26569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}