{"id":31490,"date":"2021-04-27T20:10:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T11:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/27\/beijing-calls-hong-kong-bar-association-chief-an-anti-china-politician"},"modified":"2021-04-27T20:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T11:10:56","slug":"beijing-calls-hong-kong-bar-association-chief-an-anti-china-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31490","title":{"rendered":"Beijing calls Hong Kong bar association chief an \u2018anti-China politician\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities lambast British-born Paul Harris for criticising treatment of pro-democracy campaigners<\/p>\n<p>Beijing and Hong Kong authorities have accused the British-born head of Hong Kong\u2019s bar association of being an \u201canti-China politician\u201d after he criticised jail sentences imposed on pro-democracy activists.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Harris, a human rights lawyer and the chair of the HKBA, had represented one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/jimmy-lai-martin-lee-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-sentenced\">10 people convicted this month<\/a> for organising or attending unauthorised assemblies during the pro-democracy protests in 2019. The defendants were given a range of suspended sentences or immediate jail terms of up to 18 months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/27\/beijing-calls-hong-kong-bar-association-chief-an-anti-china-politician\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities lambast British-born Paul Harris for criticising treatment of pro-democracy campaignersBeijing and Hong Kong authorities have accused the British-born head of Hong Kong\u2019s bar association of being an \u201canti-China politician\u201d after he criticis&#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":[41,50,457,48,53,86,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-law","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\/31490","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=31490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31490\/revisions\/31491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}