{"id":31251,"date":"2021-04-22T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/court-convicts-hong-kong-journalist-investigated-metro-attack"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:28:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:28:01","slug":"hong-kong-court-convicts-journalist-who-investigated-metro-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31251","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong court convicts journalist who investigated metro attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case against RTHK producer Bao Choy has become central to Hong Kong authorities\u2019 press clampdown<\/p>\n<p>An award-winning Hong Kong news producer has been found guilty of criminal conduct after she accessed a public database while investigating an attack at a city metro station in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/03\/hong-kong-tv-journalist-arrested-over-report-on-police-misconduct\">case against Bao Choy,<\/a> a producer for the public broadcaster RTHK, has become a focal point for Hong Kong authorities\u2019 clampdown on the city\u2019s press. Large crowds gathered outside court on Thursday in support of Choy, chanting and holding placards.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/court-convicts-hong-kong-journalist-investigated-metro-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case against RTHK producer Bao Choy has become central to Hong Kong authorities\u2019 press clampdownAn award-winning Hong Kong news producer has been found guilty of criminal conduct after she accessed a public database while investigating an attack at a c&#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":[41,50,48,238,672,54,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-protest","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31251","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=31251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31252,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31251\/revisions\/31252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}