{"id":30750,"date":"2021-04-09T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/09\/china-blasts-uk-asylum-hong-kong-nathan-law"},"modified":"2021-04-09T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:04:48","slug":"china-blasts-uk-for-granting-asylum-to-hong-kong-activist-nathan-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30750","title":{"rendered":"China blasts UK for granting asylum to Hong Kong activist Nathan Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK grants protection to pro-democracy figure who is regarded by Beijing as \u2018criminal suspect\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities have accused the UK of sheltering a \u201ccriminal suspect\u201d after it granted asylum to Hong Kong activist and former politician Nathan Law.<\/p>\n<p>Law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/21\/hong-kong-activist-nathan-law-applies-for-asylum-in-britain\">who fled Hong Kong in 2020<\/a>, said on Wednesday he had been granted political asylum by the Home Office and the warrant for his arrest under the Beijing-imposed national security law showed he was \u201cexposed to severe political persecution\u201d. At least 100 pro-democracy figures have been arrested under the law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/09\/china-blasts-uk-asylum-hong-kong-nathan-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK grants protection to pro-democracy figure who is regarded by Beijing as \u2018criminal suspect\u2019 Chinese authorities have accused the UK of sheltering a \u201ccriminal suspect\u201d after it granted asylum to Hong Kong activist and former politician Nathan Law.Law,&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750","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=30750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30751,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750\/revisions\/30751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}