{"id":43879,"date":"2022-04-25T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/25\/hong-kong-human-rights-press-awards-foreign-correspondents-club-scrapped-security-law-fears"},"modified":"2022-04-25T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:00:03","slug":"hong-kongs-human-rights-press-awards-scrapped-over-security-law-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43879","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Human Rights Press Awards scrapped over security law fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Correspondent\u2019s Club\u2019s decision sparks outrage from journalists and resignations from press freedom committee<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s Foreign Correspondent\u2019s Club has scrapped its annual human rights press awards just days before it was due to announce winners, out of fear it would violate the city\u2019s wide-ranging national security law.<\/p>\n<p>The decision sparked a number of resignations from the club\u2019s press freedom committee, and public criticism from journalists and former award winners, who described the move as sad, and evidence that it could no longer serve in its mission to defend the press.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/25\/hong-kong-human-rights-press-awards-foreign-correspondents-club-scrapped-security-law-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Correspondent\u2019s Club\u2019s decision sparks outrage from journalists and resignations from press freedom committeeHong Kong\u2019s Foreign Correspondent\u2019s Club has scrapped its annual human rights press awards just days before it was due to announce winn&#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":[41,48,238,671,672,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-newspapers","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\/43879","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=43879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43891,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43879\/revisions\/43891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}