{"id":43441,"date":"2022-04-11T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T03:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/prominent-hong-kong-journalist-allan-au-reportedly-held-on-sedition-charge"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T03:41:09","slug":"prominent-hong-kong-journalist-allan-au-reportedly-held-on-sedition-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43441","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Hong Kong journalist Allan Au reportedly held on sedition charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter and lecturer\u2019s arrest in dawn raid another blow to city\u2019s press amid Beijing crackdown<\/p>\n<p>A veteran Hong Kong journalist has been arrested by national security police for allegedly conspiring to publish \u201cseditious materials\u201d, a police source and local media said, in the latest blow against press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Allan Au, a 54-year-old reporter and journalism lecturer, was arrested in a dawn raid on Monday by Hong Kong\u2019s national security police unit, multiple local media outlets reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/prominent-hong-kong-journalist-allan-au-reportedly-held-on-sedition-charge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter and lecturer\u2019s arrest in dawn raid another blow to city\u2019s press amid Beijing crackdownA veteran Hong Kong journalist has been arrested by national security police for allegedly conspiring to publish \u201cseditious materials\u201d, a police source and l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"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":[41,50,48,669,238,671,672,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441","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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43442,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441\/revisions\/43442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}