{"id":46399,"date":"2022-07-14T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T03:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/hong-kong-activist-grandma-wong-jailed-for-eight-months-over-pro-democracy-protests"},"modified":"2022-07-14T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T03:39:41","slug":"hong-kong-activist-grandma-wong-jailed-for-eight-months-over-pro-democracy-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46399","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activist \u2018Grandma Wong\u2019 jailed for eight months over pro-democracy protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wong, a familiar presence at the rallies, used her court appearance to label Hong Kong\u2019s government an \u2018authoritarian regime\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has jailed a 66-year-old activist known affectionately as Grandma Wong in relation to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong+protest\">pro-democracy protests<\/a> that rocked the city three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A city magistrate jailed Alexandra Wong for eight months on Wednesday over two counts of unlawful assembly during a protest on 11 August 2019. Wong was a familiar presence at the protests, and was widely recognised for flying the British union jack.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/hong-kong-activist-grandma-wong-jailed-for-eight-months-over-pro-democracy-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wong, a familiar presence at the rallies, used her court appearance to label Hong Kong\u2019s government an \u2018authoritarian regime\u2019Hong Kong has jailed a 66-year-old activist known affectionately as Grandma Wong in relation to the pro-democracy protests that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2735,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","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\/46399","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\/2735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46400,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46399\/revisions\/46400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}