{"id":34688,"date":"2021-08-02T16:19:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/hong-kong-singer-activist-arrested-over-corrupt-conduct-anthony-wong"},"modified":"2021-08-02T16:19:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:19:28","slug":"hong-kong-singer-and-activist-arrested-over-corrupt-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34688","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong singer and activist arrested over \u2018corrupt conduct\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Wong accused of breaking law by singing at a pro-democracy rally three years ago<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Hong Kong singer and pro-democracy activist has been arrested by the city\u2019s anti-corruption watchdog over accusations he broke the law by singing at a political rally three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of Anthony Wong on Monday is the latest official move against those who had been pushing for greater democracy in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/hong-kong-singer-activist-arrested-over-corrupt-conduct-anthony-wong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Wong accused of breaking law by singing at a pro-democracy rally three years agoA prominent Hong Kong singer and pro-democracy activist has been arrested by the city\u2019s anti-corruption watchdog over accusations he broke the law by singing at a p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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-34688","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\/34688","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34689,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34688\/revisions\/34689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}