{"id":33181,"date":"2021-06-17T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T01:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/hong-kong-police-arrest-editor-in-chief-of-apple-daily-newspaper-in-morning-raids"},"modified":"2021-06-17T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T09:21:10","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-editor-in-chief-of-apple-daily-newspaper-in-morning-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33181","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police arrest editor-in-chief of Apple Daily newspaper in raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Law among five directors detained under national security legislation imposed by Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s national security police have arrested the editor-in-chief and four other directors of the Apple Daily newspaper in early morning raids involving hundreds of officers, over their role in the publication of dozens of articles alleged to be part of a conspiracy to collude with foreign forces.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s security chief, John Lee, accused those arrested of using \u201cjournalistic work as a tool to endanger national security\u201d, and issued a chilling warning to residents and other media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/hong-kong-police-arrest-editor-in-chief-of-apple-daily-newspaper-in-morning-raids\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Law among five directors detained under national security legislation imposed by BeijingHong Kong\u2019s national security police have arrested the editor-in-chief and four other directors of the Apple Daily newspaper in early morning raids involving h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,48,238,671,672,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33181","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33181\/revisions\/33215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}