{"id":48918,"date":"2022-09-29T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-ted-hui-sentenced-to-jail-over-2019-protests"},"modified":"2022-09-29T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T04:19:14","slug":"hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-ted-hui-sentenced-to-jail-over-2019-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48918","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong pro-democracy figure Ted Hui sentenced to jail over 2019 protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former legislator, who fled to Australia last year, said earlier that any sentence would not harm his reputation or lobbying work<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong court has sentenced pro-democracy figure in exile Ted Hui to three-and-a-half years in jail over charges related to the 2019 protest movement.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling in Hong Kong\u2019s high court on Thursday, reported by local media, is the first time someone has been sentenced in absentia over the protests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-ted-hui-sentenced-to-jail-over-2019-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former legislator, who fled to Australia last year, said earlier that any sentence would not harm his reputation or lobbying workA Hong Kong court has sentenced pro-democracy figure in exile Ted Hui to three-and-a-half years in jail over charges relate&#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":[41,50,457,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/48918","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=48918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48919,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48918\/revisions\/48919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}