{"id":40885,"date":"2022-01-21T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/21\/new-hong-kong-barristers-chief-warns-profession-to-stay-out-of-politics"},"modified":"2022-01-21T09:47:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:47:07","slug":"new-hong-kong-barristers-chief-warns-profession-to-stay-out-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40885","title":{"rendered":"New Hong Kong barristers\u2019 chief warns profession to stay out of politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Dawes says the group should build closer ties to mainland China amidst concerns about the rule of law<\/p>\n<p>The newly elected leader of Hong Kong barristers says that his profession should avoid politics and build closer ties to mainland China, as concerns grow about rule of law in the financial hub.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong Bar Association has been a vocal defender of human rights and its previous leader had criticised a Beijing-imposed national security law, drawing fierce condemnation from Chinese officials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/21\/new-hong-kong-barristers-chief-warns-profession-to-stay-out-of-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Dawes says the group should build closer ties to mainland China amidst concerns about the rule of lawThe newly elected leader of Hong Kong barristers says that his profession should avoid politics and build closer ties to mainland China, as conc&#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":[41,50,48,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law","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\/40885","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=40885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40885\/revisions\/40886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}