{"id":33021,"date":"2021-06-12T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T06:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/12\/agnes-chow-hong-kong-democracy-activist-is-freed-from-jail"},"modified":"2021-06-12T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T06:20:55","slug":"agnes-chow-activist-leaves-jail-as-china-says-hong-kong-pawn-in-geopolitics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33021","title":{"rendered":"Agnes Chow: activist leaves jail as China says Hong Kong \u2018pawn in geopolitics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Key figure in 2019 anti-government protests was imprisoned for more than six months under national security law imposed by mainland China<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow has been released from jail after serving more than six months for taking part in unauthorised assemblies during 2019 anti-government protests that triggered a crackdown on dissent by mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>Chow, 24, was greeted by a crowd of journalists as she left the Tai Lam women\u2019s prison on Saturday. She got out of a prison van and into a private car without making any remarks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/12\/agnes-chow-hong-kong-democracy-activist-is-freed-from-jail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Key figure in 2019 anti-government protests was imprisoned for more than six months under national security law imposed by mainland ChinaThe Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow has been released from jail after serving more than six months for tak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,50,662,457,48,53,86,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-communism","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\/33021","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33022,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021\/revisions\/33022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}