{"id":28525,"date":"2021-02-16T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/16\/high-profile-pro-democracy-figures-go-on-trial-over-hong-kong-protests"},"modified":"2021-02-16T19:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T10:27:44","slug":"high-profile-pro-democracy-figures-go-on-trial-over-hong-kong-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28525","title":{"rendered":"Key pro-democracy figures go on trial over Hong Kong protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran activist Lee Cheuk-yan accuses police and government of depriving Hongkongers of constitutional rights<\/p>\n<p>A veteran champion of democracy in Hong Kong has described its legal system as an instrument of political suppression, after he and eight other high-profile figures went on trial in one of the biggest court cases linked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/07\/anger-still-there-hong-kong-defiant-one-year-anniversary-first-protests-china\">protest movement<\/a> that paralysed the city for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the department of justice, the police department and the Hong Kong government who should be on trial because they have deprived us of our constitutional rights,\u201d said Lee Cheuk-yan after the day\u2019s proceedings. \u201cThis year is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/feb\/14\/a-sad-time-for-us-lunar-year-of-the-ox-festivities-felled-by-covid\">year of the ox<\/a> so we should be stubborn as an ox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/16\/high-profile-pro-democracy-figures-go-on-trial-over-hong-kong-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran activist Lee Cheuk-yan accuses police and government of depriving Hongkongers of constitutional rightsA veteran champion of democracy in Hong Kong has described its legal system as an instrument of political suppression, after he and eight othe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,50,48,53,86,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-law","category-protest","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\/28525","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28536,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28525\/revisions\/28536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}