{"id":28368,"date":"2021-02-13T14:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T05:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/13\/hong-kong-alarm-over-proposed-law-that-could-ban-anyone-from-leaving"},"modified":"2021-02-13T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T05:13:57","slug":"hong-kong-alarm-over-proposed-law-that-could-ban-anyone-from-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28368","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: alarm over proposed law that could ban anyone from leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barristers say proposal would give head of immigration \u2018unfettered power\u2019 to stop people leaving the city without any court process<\/p>\n<p>The influential Hong Kong Bar Association has spoken out against a government proposal that could give \u201capparently unfettered power\u201d to the immigration director to stop anyone leaving the city.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong Bar Association (HKBA) expressed alarm on Friday in a paper submitted to the city\u2019s legislative council about the proposed law, which could bar any individual \u2013 whether resident or not \u2013 from boarding a carrier out of the financial hub.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/13\/hong-kong-alarm-over-proposed-law-that-could-ban-anyone-from-leaving\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barristers say proposal would give head of immigration \u2018unfettered power\u2019 to stop people leaving the city without any court processThe influential Hong Kong Bar Association has spoken out against a government proposal that could give \u201capparently unfett&#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":[41,48,491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-migration"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28368","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=28368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28371,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28368\/revisions\/28371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}