{"id":32997,"date":"2021-06-11T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/hong-kong-authorities-to-censor-films-that-endanger-national-security"},"modified":"2021-06-11T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:35:05","slug":"hong-kong-authorities-to-censor-films-that-endanger-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32997","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong film censors get wider \u2018national security\u2019 powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observers worry rule change in Chinese city will restrict pro-democracy movement even further<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s censors have been given expanded powers to vet films for national security breaches in the latest blow to the Chinese city\u2019s political and artistic freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, authorities said the film censorship ordinance had been expanded to include \u201cany act or activity which may amount to an offence endangering national security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/hong-kong-authorities-to-censor-films-that-endanger-national-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observers worry rule change in Chinese city will restrict pro-democracy movement even furtherHong Kong\u2019s censors have been given expanded powers to vet films for national security breaches in the latest blow to the Chinese city\u2019s political and artistic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,458,50,707,69,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-documentary-films","category-film","category-hong-kong","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\/32997","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33003,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997\/revisions\/33003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}