{"id":33397,"date":"2021-06-23T23:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/timeline-of-events-leading-to-the-closure-of-hong-kongs-apple-daily"},"modified":"2021-06-23T23:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:32:03","slug":"timeline-of-events-leading-to-the-closure-of-hong-kongs-apple-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33397","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of events leading to the closure of Hong Kong\u2019s Apple Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key moments in the recent history of territory\u2019s largest pro-democracy newspaper<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 2019<\/strong> The first protests begin in Hong Kong, with millions of people taking to the street in protest against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/07\/the-last-fight-for-hong-kong-activists-gear-up-to-protest-extradition-law\">a proposed extradition bill<\/a>, which critics fear will allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 July<\/strong> The pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai travels to the US and <a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2019\/07\/10\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-meets-us-no-2-mike-pence-sec-state-pompeo-discuss-extradition-bill\/\">meets the vice-president, Mike Pence<\/a>, and the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to discuss the proposed extradition bill. China\u2019s foreign ministry releases a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3017868\/beijing-foreign-office-slams-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-and\">statement<\/a> accusing \u201cnational scum and Hong Kong sinners\u201d of acting as political tools for foreign forces.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/timeline-of-events-leading-to-the-closure-of-hong-kongs-apple-daily\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key moments in the recent history of territory\u2019s largest pro-democracy newspaperJune 2019 The first protests begin in Hong Kong, with millions of people taking to the street in protest against a proposed extradition bill, which critics fear will allow &#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":[50,48,669,238,671,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-newspapers","category-press-freedom","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\/33397","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=33397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33398,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33397\/revisions\/33398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}