{"id":48661,"date":"2022-09-20T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T04:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/20\/hong-kong-journalist-charged-days-before-leaving-for-oxford-fellowship"},"modified":"2022-09-20T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:40:06","slug":"hong-kong-journalist-charged-days-before-leaving-for-oxford-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48661","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong journalist charged days before leaving for Oxford fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronson Chan was due to travel to the UK when he was arrested for \u2018obstructing police\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The head of Hong Kong\u2019s journalist union was charged with obstructing police on Monday, 10 days before he was set to leave the city and begin an overseas fellowship at Oxford University.<\/p>\n<p>Ronson Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2022\/sep\/07\/hong-kong-journalist-union-chair-ronson-chan-arrested-oxford-fellowship\">arrested on 7 September <\/a>over a dispute with two officers who asked to see his identification while he was covering a residents\u2019 meeting at a public housing estate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/20\/hong-kong-journalist-charged-days-before-leaving-for-oxford-fellowship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronson Chan was due to travel to the UK when he was arrested for \u2018obstructing police\u2019The head of Hong Kong\u2019s journalist union was charged with obstructing police on Monday, 10 days before he was set to leave the city and begin an overseas fellowship at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-48661","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\/48661","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48680,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48661\/revisions\/48680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}