{"id":52223,"date":"2023-01-30T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/29\/hongkongers-in-uk-ask-suella-braverman-to-ditch-repressive-anti-protest-bill"},"modified":"2023-01-30T03:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T18:00:01","slug":"hongkongers-in-uk-ask-suella-braverman-to-ditch-repressive-anti-protest-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52223","title":{"rendered":"Hongkongers in UK ask Suella Braverman to ditch \u2018repressive\u2019 anti-protest bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Letter to home secretary says bill echoes \u2018dangerously broad laws\u2019 that result in jailing of protesters<\/p>\n<p>Hongkongers in Britain have called on Suella Braverman to reconsider controversial measures in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/15\/police-to-get-new-powers-to-shut-down-protests-before-disruption-begins\">public order bill<\/a>, which they likened to the repressive measures used to crack down on democratic opposition in their home city.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the UK home secretary, aspects of the bill were described as \u201crepressive measures that threaten to paralyse entire social movement\u201d and posed a threat to their right to protest in Britain, including against Chinese communist repression in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/29\/hongkongers-in-uk-ask-suella-braverman-to-ditch-repressive-anti-protest-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Letter to home secretary says bill echoes \u2018dangerously broad laws\u2019 that result in jailing of protestersHongkongers in Britain have called on Suella Braverman to reconsider controversial measures in her public order bill, which they likened t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"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":[41,50,457,1440,48,4,80,1159,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-home-office","category-hong-kong","category-politics","category-protest","category-suella-braverman","category-uk-news","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\/52223","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\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52224,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52223\/revisions\/52224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}