{"id":40818,"date":"2022-01-19T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/19\/hong-kong-activist-edward-leung-independence-slogan-fishball-revolution-released-from-prison"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T01:59:08","slug":"hong-kong-activist-who-coined-banned-independence-slogan-released-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40818","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activist who coined banned independence slogan released from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Leung, who came up with \u2018Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times\u2019, has spent four years in prison over 2016 riots<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong activist Edward Leung, who coined the now-banned slogan \u201cLiberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times\u201d has been released from prison and placed under strict supervision after spending four years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The prominent independence activist said in a statement posted on his Facebook page \u2013 hours after his reported release at about 3am on Wednesday \u2013 that he was back with his family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/19\/hong-kong-activist-edward-leung-independence-slogan-fishball-revolution-released-from-prison\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Leung, who came up with \u2018Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times\u2019, has spent four years in prison over 2016 riots Hong Kong activist Edward Leung, who coined the now-banned slogan \u201cLiberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times\u201d has been releas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[50,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40818","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40819,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40818\/revisions\/40819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}