{"id":33341,"date":"2021-06-22T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/22\/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-apple-daily-arrests-national-security-law"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:27:32","slug":"hong-kong-leader-refuses-to-say-how-media-can-avoid-arrest-in-wake-of-apple-daily-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33341","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader refuses to say how media can avoid arrest in wake of Apple Daily raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam denies arrest of senior editorial figures at pro-democracy paper and seizure of its assets was an attack on press freedom<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has refused to clarify how journalists can avoid breaking the vaguely defined national security law following the raid and prosecution of journalists at a pro-democracy newspaper. <\/p>\n<p>At a regular press conference on Tuesday the city\u2019s chief executive, Carrie Lam, defended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/hong-kong-police-arrest-editor-in-chief-of-apple-daily-newspaper-in-morning-raids\">the arrest of senior Apple Daily executives<\/a> under the national security law (NSL) \u2013 two of whom have been charged with conspiracy to commit collusion with a foreign country \u2013 as well as the raid of its newsroom and freezing of assets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/22\/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-apple-daily-arrests-national-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam denies arrest of senior editorial figures at pro-democracy paper and seizure of its assets was an attack on press freedomHong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has refused to clarify how journalists can avoid breaking the vaguely defined national s&#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":[41,50,48,238,671,672,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","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\/33341","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=33341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33357,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33341\/revisions\/33357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}