{"id":38634,"date":"2021-11-04T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/04\/top-hong-kong-court-rules-against-government-bid-to-expand-riot-prosecutions"},"modified":"2021-11-04T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T06:48:07","slug":"top-hong-kong-court-rules-against-government-bid-to-expand-riot-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38634","title":{"rendered":"Top Hong Kong court rules against government bid to expand riot prosecutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers say ruling is \u2018highly significant\u2019 and likely to impact future prosecutions amid intensifying national security crackdown<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s top court has quashed attempts by the city\u2019s government to prosecute people for rioting or illegal assembly even without being present at the scene \u2013 a ruling lawyers described as a landmark.<\/p>\n<p>The five-judge panel in Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal, headed by chief justice Andrew Cheung, unanimously rejected an earlier ruling by a lower appeal court that people, such as supporters, could be criminally liable without being actually present under the common law doctrine of \u201cjoint enterprise\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/04\/top-hong-kong-court-rules-against-government-bid-to-expand-riot-prosecutions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers say ruling is \u2018highly significant\u2019 and likely to impact future prosecutions amid intensifying national security crackdownHong Kong\u2019s top court has quashed attempts by the city\u2019s government to prosecute people for rioting or illegal assembly eve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-38634","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\/38634","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38635,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38634\/revisions\/38635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}