{"id":34301,"date":"2021-07-22T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jul\/22\/hong-kong-five-arrested-for-sedition-over-childrens-book-about-sheep-video"},"modified":"2021-07-22T22:25:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:25:16","slug":"hong-kong-five-arrested-for-sedition-over-childrens-book-about-sheep-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34301","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: five arrested for sedition over children\u2019s book about sheep  \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a>&nbsp;union behind a series of children\u2019s books about sheep trying to hold back wolves from their village have been arrested for sedition. The arrests were made by the&nbsp;<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 undertaking a sweeping crackdown on dissent. The two men and three women detained had &#8216;conspired to publish, distribute, exhibit or copy seditious publications&#8217;, the unit said<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/five-arrested-in-hong-kong-for-sedition-over-childrens-book-about-sheep\">Five arrested in Hong Kong for sedition over children\u2019s book about sheep<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jul\/22\/hong-kong-five-arrested-for-sedition-over-childrens-book-about-sheep-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of a&nbsp;Hong Kong&nbsp;union behind a series of children\u2019s books about sheep trying to hold back wolves from their village have been arrested for sedition. The arrests were made by the&nbsp;new national security police unit, which is und&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,50,457,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","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\/34301","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34302,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34301\/revisions\/34302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}