{"id":39760,"date":"2021-12-13T19:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/13\/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-and-activists-jailed-up-to-14-months-for-tiananmen-vigil"},"modified":"2021-12-13T19:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T10:25:31","slug":"hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-sentenced-over-banned-tiananmen-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39760","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced over banned Tiananmen vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai and seven other democracy campaigners handed prison sentences for commemorating victims of massacre<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to up to 14 months in prison for organising, taking part in and inciting participation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-ban-china-national-anthem-bill-protest\">a banned vigil last year<\/a> for victims of China\u2019s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.<\/p>\n<p>The former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with the promise of wide-ranging freedoms, traditionally holds the largest 4 June vigil in the world, but police have rejected applications for the past two events, citing coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/13\/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-and-activists-jailed-up-to-14-months-for-tiananmen-vigil\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai and seven other democracy campaigners handed prison sentences for commemorating victims of massacreThe Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to up to 14 months in prison for organising, taking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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":[41,50,457,48,80,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/39760","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39760\/revisions\/39761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}