{"id":38843,"date":"2021-11-12T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/hong-kong-protester-known-as-captain-america-jailed-for-five-years"},"modified":"2021-11-12T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T02:37:00","slug":"hong-kong-protester-known-as-captain-america-jailed-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38843","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protester known as \u2018Captain America\u2019 jailed for five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ma Chun-man, who carried the superhero\u2019s shield and chanted pro-democracy slogans at rallies, was convicted under new security laws<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong man known as \u201cCaptain America\u201d for carrying the superhero\u2019s shield at protest rallies has been sentenced to more than five years in jail for chanting slogans promoting Hong Kong\u2019s independence from China.<\/p>\n<p>Ma Chun-man, a 31-year-old food delivery driver, was convicted last month by a judge of trying to separate the city from China by chanting slogans and displaying placards, as well as through interviews with reporters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/hong-kong-protester-known-as-captain-america-jailed-for-five-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ma Chun-man, who carried the superhero\u2019s shield and chanted pro-democracy slogans at rallies, was convicted under new security lawsA Hong Kong man known as \u201cCaptain America\u201d for carrying the superhero\u2019s shield at protest rallies has been sentenced to m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,457,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38843","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38844,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38843\/revisions\/38844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}