{"id":37501,"date":"2021-09-30T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T08:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/30\/hong-hong-seeks-to-resurrect-legislation-to-further-crush-dissent"},"modified":"2021-09-30T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T08:48:12","slug":"hong-kong-seeks-to-resurrect-legislation-to-further-crush-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37501","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong seeks to resurrect legislation to further crush dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article 23, shelved in 2003, may target foreign organisations and bans \u2018subversion\u2019 against Chinese government<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong government is pushing ahead with its own national security legislation to \u201cfill gaps\u201d around the Beijing-imposed law already being used to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/01\/hong-kong-democracy-activists-jailed-for-assembly-in-2019-protests\"> crush dissent and jail opposition figures.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the city\u2019s security secretary, former police chief Chris Tang, said the government would consider targeting Taiwanese and other foreign political organisations when drafting the new legislation, known as Article 23.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/30\/hong-hong-seeks-to-resurrect-legislation-to-further-crush-dissent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 23, shelved in 2003, may target foreign organisations and bans \u2018subversion\u2019 against Chinese governmentThe Hong Kong government is pushing ahead with its own national security legislation to \u201cfill gaps\u201d around the Beijing-imposed law already bei&#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":[50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/37501","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=37501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37515,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37501\/revisions\/37515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}