{"id":51975,"date":"2023-01-19T00:36:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/18\/hong-kong-police-arrest-six-seditious-book-lunar-new-year-fair"},"modified":"2023-01-19T00:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:36:03","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-six-for-selling-seditious-book-at-lunar-new-year-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51975","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police arrest six for selling \u2018seditious\u2019 book at lunar new year fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people accused of publishing book relating to 2019 protests in move critics say has spread terror<\/p>\n<p>Police in Hong Kong have raided a lunar new year shopping fair and arrested six people for selling a \u201cseditious\u201d book related to the 2019 anti-government protests in a move critics say has spread \u201cterror\u201d just days before the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>National security officers accused three men and three women, aged between 18 and 62, of producing and publishing \u201ca seditious book about a series of riots that occurred in Hong Kong from June 2019 to February 2020\u201d, and selling it in a lunar new year stall in a shopping centre in Mong Kok, a bustling shopping district.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/18\/hong-kong-police-arrest-six-seditious-book-lunar-new-year-fair\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people accused of publishing book relating to 2019 protests in move critics say has spread terrorPolice in Hong Kong have raided a lunar new year shopping fair and arrested six people for selling a \u201cseditious\u201d book related to the 2019 anti-governme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[41,511,50,457,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/51975","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51976,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51975\/revisions\/51976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}