{"id":31003,"date":"2021-04-16T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/jimmy-lai-martin-lee-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-sentenced"},"modified":"2021-04-16T22:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T13:16:47","slug":"hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-to-be-sentenced-amid-crackdown-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31003","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong pro-democracy figures given jail terms of up to 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media mogul Jimmy Lai and veteran activist Lee Cheuk-yan each sentenced to 14 months over protests<\/p>\n<p>A court in Hong Kong has handed down a mixture of prison and suspended sentences to 10 of the territory\u2019s most prominent pro-democracy figures, including reformers, politicians and a media mogul, some veterans of the transition from British rule in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The prison sentences for organising or participating in an unauthorised assembly \u2013 traditionally a low-level offence attracting fines \u2013 are a highly symbolic blow to the pro-democracy movement, which has been targeted by authorities bent on removing all opposition to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/jimmy-lai-martin-lee-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-sentenced\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media mogul Jimmy Lai and veteran activist Lee Cheuk-yan each sentenced to 14 months over protestsA court in Hong Kong has handed down a mixture of prison and suspended sentences to 10 of the territory\u2019s most prominent pro-democracy figures, including &#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/31003","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=31003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31020,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003\/revisions\/31020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}