{"id":45102,"date":"2022-06-02T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/after-years-fighting-for-the-little-guy-hong-kong-crackdown-forces-uk-lawyer-to-flee"},"modified":"2022-06-02T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T10:00:36","slug":"after-years-fighting-for-the-little-guy-hong-kong-crackdown-forces-uk-lawyer-to-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45102","title":{"rendered":"After years fighting for the \u2018little guy\u2019, Hong Kong crackdown forces UK lawyer to flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assailed by a hostile press, police and judiciary, Michael Vidler left the city with pride at having tried to improve the lives of ordinary people<\/p>\n<p>Michael Vidler has built his legal career on fighting for the \u201clittle guy\u201d in Hong Kong, from high-profile street protesters such as Joshua Wong to little-known LGBT activists.<\/p>\n<p>But not any more. After 30 years in the city, the 58-year-old human rights lawyer has been forced to flee back to Britain because of concerns about the Beijing-drafted national security law and \u201cunfounded allegations\u201d from the increasingly bellicose state-controlled press.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/after-years-fighting-for-the-little-guy-hong-kong-crackdown-forces-uk-lawyer-to-flee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assailed by a hostile press, police and judiciary, Michael Vidler left the city with pride at having tried to improve the lives of ordinary peopleMichael Vidler has built his legal career on fighting for the \u201clittle guy\u201d in Hong Kong, from high-profile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"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":[41,50,48,53,86,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-law","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\/45102","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\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45103,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45102\/revisions\/45103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}