{"id":4443,"date":"2019-07-24T18:52:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/24\/hong-kong-activists-target-uk-government-with-ad-campaign"},"modified":"2019-07-24T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:52:49","slug":"hong-kong-activists-target-uk-government-with-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4443","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activists target UK government with ad campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media ads call for imposing of sanctions to protect human rights in former colony<\/p>\n<p>The British government and MPs are to be the focus of a digital <a href=\"https:\/\/standwithhk.org\/openletter\">advertising campaign<\/a> in which Hong Kong pro-democracy activists will plead for the UK to take action to protect rights in the former colony.<\/p>\n<p>A group of activists have paid for adverts that appeared on Wednesday in British media outlets calling on the UK government to impose sanctions on those responsible for what is described as the suppression of human rights and freedoms in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/24\/hong-kong-activists-target-uk-government-with-ad-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media ads call for imposing of sanctions to protect human rights in former colonyThe British government and MPs are to be the focus of a digital advertising campaign in which Hong Kong pro-democracy activists will plead for the UK to take action to pro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"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":[435,41,50,48,53,238,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-media","category-uk-news","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\/4443","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\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}