{"id":52390,"date":"2023-02-06T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T02:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/06\/hong-kong-landmark-national-security-trial-of-47-democracy-advocates-begins"},"modified":"2023-02-06T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:11:40","slug":"hong-kong-landmark-national-security-trial-of-47-democracy-advocates-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52390","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: landmark national security trial of 47 democracy advocates begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests as former politicians, activists, campaigners and community workers appear in court accused of \u2018conspiracy to commit subversion\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/04\/hong-kong-47-trial-of-dozens-in-pro-democracy-movement-set-to-begin-under-national-security-laws\">largest national security trial<\/a> began on Monday, involving 47 of the city\u2019s most high-profile democracy advocates, in a hearing that has been labelled a trial of the territory\u2019s pro-democracy movement itself.<\/p>\n<p>The group of former politicians, activists, campaigners, and community workers are accused of \u201cconspiracy to commit subversion\u201d over the holding of unofficial pre-election primaries in July 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/06\/hong-kong-landmark-national-security-trial-of-47-democracy-advocates-begins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests as former politicians, activists, campaigners and community workers appear in court accused of \u2018conspiracy to commit subversion\u2019Hong Kong\u2019s largest national security trial began on Monday, involving 47 of the city\u2019s most high-profile democracy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3557,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/52390","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\/3557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52390\/revisions\/52407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}