{"id":26672,"date":"2021-01-12T15:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/carrie-lam-hong-kong-accuses-west-of-double-standards-over-attack-on-us-capitol"},"modified":"2021-01-12T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:07:44","slug":"hong-kong-arrests-carrie-lam-accuses-west-of-hypocrisy-citing-us-capitol-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26672","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong arrests: Carrie Lam accuses west of hypocrisy, citing US Capitol riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City\u2019s leader accuses foreign critics of double standards when they condemn rioters in the US but support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s leader has defended the unprecedented mass arrest of opposition figures last week, and<strong> <\/strong>accused western powers of hypocrisy for condemning the siege on the US Capitol after supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>At a weekly press briefing in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Carrie Lam was asked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown\">coordinated police raids last Wednesday<\/a>, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/last-voices-of-dissent-hong-kongs-remaining-activists-lament-assault-on-opposition\">55 opposition figures were arrested<\/a> on suspicion of breaching the national security law by holding unofficial primaries ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/concern-as-hong-kong-postpones-elections-for-one-year-citing-covid-19\">since-postponed Hong Kong election<\/a>. The raids were the latest use of the national security law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/hong-kong-arrests-showcase-shrinking-tolerance-for-peaceful-opposition\">against the pro-democracy movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/carrie-lam-hong-kong-accuses-west-of-double-standards-over-attack-on-us-capitol\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City\u2019s leader accuses foreign critics of double standards when they condemn rioters in the US but support pro-democracy protesters in Hong KongHong Kong\u2019s leader has defended the unprecedented mass arrest of opposition figures last week, and accused we&#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-26672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/26672","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=26672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672\/revisions\/26675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}