{"id":34276,"date":"2021-07-22T13:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T04:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/five-arrested-in-hong-kong-for-sedition-over-childrens-book-about-sheep"},"modified":"2021-07-22T13:33:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T04:33:55","slug":"five-arrested-in-hong-kong-for-sedition-over-childrens-book-about-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34276","title":{"rendered":"Five arrested in Hong Kong for sedition over children\u2019s book about sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books tried to explain the pro-democracy movement, portraying supporters as sheep surrounded by wolves<\/p>\n<p>Five members of a Hong Kong union behind a series of children\u2019s books about sheep trying to hold back wolves from their village have been arrested for sedition.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/hong-kong-to-establish-new-police-unit-to-enforce-new-security-laws\">new national security police unit<\/a>, which is spearheading a sweeping crackdown on dissent, are the latest action against pro-democracy activists since huge and often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/16\/from-packed-streets-to-silence-documenting-hong-kong-authoritarianism\">violent protests convulsed the city two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/five-arrested-in-hong-kong-for-sedition-over-childrens-book-about-sheep\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books tried to explain the pro-democracy movement, portraying supporters as sheep surrounded by wolvesFive members of a Hong Kong union behind a series of children\u2019s books about sheep trying to hold back wolves from their village have been arrested for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/34276","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34277,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34276\/revisions\/34277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}