{"id":30680,"date":"2021-04-07T18:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T09:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/hong-kong-activists-plead-guilty-but-say-history-will-absolve-us"},"modified":"2021-04-07T18:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T09:43:48","slug":"hong-kong-activists-plead-guilty-but-say-history-will-absolve-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30680","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activists plead guilty but say \u2018history will absolve us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Cheuk-yan says he and fellow accused Jimmy Lai and Yeung Sum did nothing wrong <\/p>\n<p>A prominent Hong Kong activist, Lee Cheuk-yan has declared \u201chistory will absolve\u201d those on trial, after he pleaded guilty with the media mogul Jimmy Lai to taking part in an unauthorised assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The two were facing charges alongside former Democratic party chairman Yeung Sum over a pro-democracy protest on 31 August 2019, which was not authorised by police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/hong-kong-activists-plead-guilty-but-say-history-will-absolve-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Cheuk-yan says he and fellow accused Jimmy Lai and Yeung Sum did nothing wrong A prominent Hong Kong activist, Lee Cheuk-yan has declared \u201chistory will absolve\u201d those on trial, after he pleaded guilty with the media mogul Jimmy Lai to taking part i&#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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/30680","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=30680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30698,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions\/30698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}