{"id":30051,"date":"2021-03-22T20:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/22\/china-returns-eight-activists-jailed-trying-flee-hong-kong-taiwan"},"modified":"2021-03-22T20:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:08:19","slug":"china-returns-eight-activists-jailed-for-trying-to-flee-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30051","title":{"rendered":"China returns eight activists jailed for trying to flee Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group were among 12 people detained over attempt to reach Taiwan by speedboat last August<\/p>\n<p>Eight out of a dozen Hong Kong activists detained last year by Chinese authorities after attempting to flee to Taiwan have been returned to the city, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.info.gov.hk\/gia\/general\/202103\/22\/P2021032200574.htm\">Hong Kong government said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/15\/hong-kong-12-who-fled-by-boat-to-taiwan-held-in-criminal-detention-by-china\">the \u201cHong Kong 12\u201d<\/a>, the group were captured at sea by the Chinese coastguard last August as they tried to reach Taiwan by speedboat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/22\/china-returns-eight-activists-jailed-trying-flee-hong-kong-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group were among 12 people detained over attempt to reach Taiwan by speedboat last AugustEight out of a dozen Hong Kong activists detained last year by Chinese authorities after attempting to flee to Taiwan have been returned to the city, the Hong Kong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"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":[41,50,48,80,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-taiwan","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\/30051","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30052,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30051\/revisions\/30052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}