{"id":27711,"date":"2021-02-03T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/second-lawyer-barred-after-defending-hong-kong-democracy-activist"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:22:21","slug":"second-lawyer-barred-after-defending-hong-kong-democracy-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27711","title":{"rendered":"Second lawyer barred after defending Hong Kong democracy activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ren Quanniu, who acted for one of the 12 people who tried to flee territory by boat, says revocation is \u2018groundless\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A second Chinese lawyer has lost his licence after defending a Hong Kong democracy activist charged with illegally leaving the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Ren Quanniu, who represented one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/30\/hong-kong-china-jails-1o-who-fled-by-boat-to-taiwan-for-up-to-three-years\">12 people caught attempting to flee<\/a> Hong Kong to Taiwan by boat in August 2020, received a court notice on Tuesday revoking his right to practise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/second-lawyer-barred-after-defending-hong-kong-democracy-activist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren Quanniu, who acted for one of the 12 people who tried to flee territory by boat, says revocation is \u2018groundless\u2019A second Chinese lawyer has lost his licence after defending a Hong Kong democracy activist charged with illegally leaving the territory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,48,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27711","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27712,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27711\/revisions\/27712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}