{"id":38796,"date":"2021-11-10T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/10\/hong-kong-apple-daily-cheung-kim-hung-dominic-raab-bail"},"modified":"2021-11-10T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T06:00:07","slug":"hong-kong-prosecutors-cite-dominic-raab-comments-in-bid-to-deny-bail-for-apple-daily-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38796","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong prosecutors cite Dominic Raab comments in bid to deny bail for Apple Daily boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors successfully claim criticism of Hong Kong crackdown by US and UK shows Cheung Kim-hung has links to foreign political groups<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong newspaper executive on trial for national security offences had his bail denied in part because of comments made by Dominic Raab after his arrest, which prosecutors cited as evidence of a \u201cclose association\u201d with foreign political groups.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/legalref.judiciary.hk\/lrs\/common\/ju\/ju_frame.jsp?DIS=140017&amp;currpage=T\">ruling<\/a> handed down on 5 November against Cheung Kim-hung, the former chief executive of Apple Daily\u2019s parent company Next Digital Media, also cited the US awarding of a congressional medal to Cheung and his colleagues, and a statement by the US state department.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/10\/hong-kong-apple-daily-cheung-kim-hung-dominic-raab-bail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors successfully claim criticism of Hong Kong crackdown by US and UK shows Cheung Kim-hung has links to foreign political groupsA Hong Kong newspaper executive on trial for national security offences had his bail denied in part because of comme&#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38796","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\/38796","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=38796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38797,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796\/revisions\/38797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}