{"id":45931,"date":"2022-07-01T08:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T23:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/01\/we-were-too-lenient-on-pro-democracy-politicians-says-senior-hong-kong-mp-regina-ip"},"modified":"2022-07-01T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T23:52:37","slug":"we-were-too-lenient-on-pro-democracy-politicians-says-senior-hong-kong-legislator-regina-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45931","title":{"rendered":"We were too lenient on pro-democracy politicians, says senior Hong Kong legislator Regina Ip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior figure in John Lee\u2019s incoming administration says opposition politicians \u2018only have themselves to blame\u2019 for being arrested<\/p>\n<p>A senior member of Hong Kong\u2019s incoming administration has said dozens of former opposition MPs who were arrested or jailed over their fight for democracy \u201chave themselves to blame\u201d, and feels authorities were too lenient.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Guardian from her quarantine hotel room ahead of a ceremony with Chinese president Xi Jinping to mark 25 years since the British handover and the start of new chief executive John Lee\u2019s term, Regina Ip was asked how she felt knowing some former Legislative Council (LegCo) colleagues would be sitting in a jail cell instead of attending the event.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/01\/we-were-too-lenient-on-pro-democracy-politicians-says-senior-hong-kong-mp-regina-ip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior figure in John Lee\u2019s incoming administration says opposition politicians \u2018only have themselves to blame\u2019 for being arrestedA senior member of Hong Kong\u2019s incoming administration has said dozens of former opposition MPs who were arrested or jai&#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":[50,457,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45931","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=45931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45932,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45931\/revisions\/45932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}