{"id":40239,"date":"2021-12-30T02:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/speed-of-stand-news-shutdown-sends-chilling-signal-to-hong-kongs-media"},"modified":"2021-12-30T02:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:23:31","slug":"speed-of-stand-news-shutdown-sends-chilling-signal-to-hong-kongs-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40239","title":{"rendered":"Speed of Stand News shutdown sends chilling signal to Hong Kong\u2019s media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Analysis: <\/strong>the police raid and closure of the pro-democracy website has left journalists wondering who will be next<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/hong-kong-police-arrest-six-journalists-from-independent-media-outlet-stand-news\">Christmas attack<\/a> on Hong Kong website Stand News was no great surprise in a city where all forms of political opposition are being dismantled wholesale, but the scale, speed and nature of the operation to shutter this pro-democracy website were still shocking.<\/p>\n<p>Over 200 police officers swept into the newsroom, and others fanned out over the city making arrests under a harsh sedition law from the days of British colonial rule that had been gathering dust for decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/speed-of-stand-news-shutdown-sends-chilling-signal-to-hong-kongs-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: the police raid and closure of the pro-democracy website has left journalists wondering who will be nextThe Christmas attack on Hong Kong website Stand News was no great surprise in a city where all forms of political opposition are being dis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,48,238,672,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","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\/40239","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40240,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions\/40240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}