{"id":43701,"date":"2022-04-20T14:59:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/hong-kong-jails-pro-democracy-activist-and-former-dj-for-uttering-seditious-words"},"modified":"2022-04-20T14:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:59:27","slug":"hong-kong-jails-pro-democracy-activist-and-former-dj-for-uttering-seditious-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43701","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong jails pro-democracy activist and former DJ for \u2018uttering seditious words\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tam Tak-chi was the first person charged with sedition since 1997 under colonial-era law amid a wider crackdown by authorities<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong court has sentenced a former radio DJ and political party official charged with \u201cseditious\u201d verbal crimes to 40 months in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Tam Tak-chi, also known by his radio name Fast Beat, was also fined $5,000 after he was found guilty on 11 of 14 charges against him last month, including seven counts of \u201cuttering seditious words\u201d. He was acquitted of two counts of \u201cdisorderly conduct in a public place,\u201d and one of \u201cconspiracy to utter seditious words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/hong-kong-jails-pro-democracy-activist-and-former-dj-for-uttering-seditious-words\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tam Tak-chi was the first person charged with sedition since 1997 under colonial-era law amid a wider crackdown by authoritiesA Hong Kong court has sentenced a former radio DJ and political party official charged with \u201cseditious\u201d verbal crimes to 40 mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43701","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43702,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43701\/revisions\/43702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}