{"id":33859,"date":"2021-07-08T21:02:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/08\/hong-kong-trial-47-pro-democracy-activists-delayed-11-week-national-security-law"},"modified":"2021-07-08T21:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:02:16","slug":"hong-kong-trial-of-47-pro-democracy-activists-delayed-for-11-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33859","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong trial of 47 pro-democracy activists delayed for 11 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors granted more time to prepare cases against those arrested under sweeping national security law<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have been granted another months-long delay to the trial of 47 pro-democracy politicians, activists, and campaigners in Hong Kong who held pre-election primaries declared illegal under its sweeping national security law.<\/p>\n<p>A court on Thursday was originally expected to hear an application to transfer the case to a higher court with powers to order longer jail sentences, but prosecutors instead requested an 11-week adjournment, saying they needed more time to prepare, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/08\/hong-kong-trial-47-pro-democracy-activists-delayed-11-week-national-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors granted more time to prepare cases against those arrested under sweeping national security lawProsecutors have been granted another months-long delay to the trial of 47 pro-democracy politicians, activists, and campaigners in Hong Kong who &#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":[559,41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/33859","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=33859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33860,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33859\/revisions\/33860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}