{"id":33376,"date":"2021-06-23T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T05:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/hong-kong-police-arrest-editorial-writer-at-apple-daily-newspaper"},"modified":"2021-06-23T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T05:18:13","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-editorial-writer-at-apple-daily-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33376","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police arrest editorial writer at Apple Daily newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrest of journalist who publishes under the name Li Ping is the first of a writer  at the pro-democracy newspaper<\/p>\n<p>The editorial writer for Hong Kong\u2019s Apple Daily newspaper has been arrested, the latest move in a media crackdown under the national security law that saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/hong-kong-police-arrest-editor-in-chief-of-apple-daily-newspaper-in-morning-raids\">hundreds of police raid its newsroom<\/a> and arrest senior figures last week.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the arrest of a 55-year-old man in Tseung Kwan O on Wednesday morning, \u201con suspicion of conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/hong-kong-police-arrest-editorial-writer-at-apple-daily-newspaper\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrest of journalist who publishes under the name Li Ping is the first of a writer  at the pro-democracy newspaperThe editorial writer for Hong Kong\u2019s Apple Daily newspaper has been arrested, the latest move in a media crackdown under the national secu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[50,48,238,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","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\/33376","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33377,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33376\/revisions\/33377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}