{"id":33476,"date":"2021-06-27T01:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/26\/hong-kong-needs-law-to-tackle-hostility-against-the-police-says-forces-new-chief"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:41:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:41:12","slug":"hong-kong-needs-law-to-tackle-hostility-against-the-police-says-forces-new-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33476","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong needs law to tackle \u2018hostility against the police\u2019, says force\u2019s new chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Siu blames protests on \u2018fake news\u2019 \u2013 but critics fear the label will be used to muzzle dissent<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s new police chief has called for a \u201cfake news\u201d law to tackle \u201chostility against the police\u201d, in what analysts see as an indication of the next phase of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/worst-of-times-hong-kong-apple-daily-media-defiant-amid-police-crackdown\">crackdown on free speech<\/a> in the former British overseas territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that there are residents who are still hostile against us,\u201d Raymond Siu, 55, said at his first media briefing since taking office on Friday. \u201cIn this regard, I told my colleagues that many of these torn relationships and hostility against the police are due to fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/26\/hong-kong-needs-law-to-tackle-hostility-against-the-police-says-forces-new-chief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Siu blames protests on \u2018fake news\u2019 \u2013 but critics fear the label will be used to muzzle dissentHong Kong\u2019s new police chief has called for a \u201cfake news\u201d law to tackle \u201chostility against the police\u201d, in what analysts see as an indication of the n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","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\/33476","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33532,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33476\/revisions\/33532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}