{"id":45512,"date":"2022-06-17T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T05:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/17\/hong-kong-bans-some-media-outlets-from-swearing-in-of-new-chief-executive"},"modified":"2022-06-17T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T05:52:25","slug":"hong-kong-bans-some-media-outlets-from-swearing-in-of-new-chief-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45512","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong bans some media outlets from swearing-in of new chief executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press crackdown continues as Japanese, US and Taiwanese reporters blocked from 1 July event, which is also 25th anniversary of British handover<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong authorities have barred some local and international media from the inauguration of the new chief executive, citing pandemic restrictions and security reasons.<\/p>\n<p>International and wire outlets were among those reportedly not invited to the 1 July event, which will see the formal swearing in of the former security chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/08\/john-lee-hong-kong-security-chief-who-oversaw-pro-democracy-crackdown-anointed-new-leader\">John Lee<\/a>, and will also mark the 25th anniversary of the British handback of Hong Kong to China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/17\/hong-kong-bans-some-media-outlets-from-swearing-in-of-new-chief-executive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press crackdown continues as Japanese, US and Taiwanese reporters blocked from 1 July event, which is also 25th anniversary of British handoverHong Kong authorities have barred some local and international media from the inauguration of the new chief e&#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":[50,48,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45512","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=45512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45513,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45512\/revisions\/45513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}