{"id":48277,"date":"2022-09-07T21:58:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/07\/hong-kong-authors-of-childrens-books-sheep-wolves-convicted-of-sedition"},"modified":"2022-09-07T21:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:58:38","slug":"hong-kong-therapists-convicted-of-sedition-over-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48277","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong therapists convicted of sedition over children\u2019s books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books depicted sheep fleeing from invading wolves, which judge found aimed to incite hatred against China<\/p>\n<p>A court in Hong Kong has convicted five speech therapists of producing \u201cseditious publications\u201d in the form of a series of illustrated children\u2019s books that depicted sheep trying to defend their village from wolves.<\/p>\n<p>The convictions are the latest using a colonial-era sedition offence that authorities have deployed alongside a new national security law to stamp out dissent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/07\/hong-kong-authors-of-childrens-books-sheep-wolves-convicted-of-sedition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books depicted sheep fleeing from invading wolves, which judge found aimed to incite hatred against ChinaA court in Hong Kong has convicted five speech therapists of producing \u201cseditious publications\u201d in the form of a series of illustrated children\u2019s b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3076,"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":[41,50,457,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48277","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\/3076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48277\/revisions\/48278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}