{"id":52652,"date":"2023-02-16T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/16\/trial-of-the-hong-kong-47-symbolises-chinas-attempts-to-dissolve-civil-society"},"modified":"2023-02-16T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T19:00:19","slug":"trial-of-the-hong-kong-47-symbolises-chinas-attempts-to-dissolve-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52652","title":{"rendered":"Trial of the \u2018Hong Kong 47\u2019 symbolises China\u2019s attempts to dissolve civil society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say Chinese authorities want to send the message that critical voices deemed a threat to the regime will be erased<\/p>\n<p>When Hong Kong police arrested dozens of pro-democracy politicians, lawyers, scholars, journalists, NGO workers and activists in early morning raids across the city on 6 January 2021, a sense of terror spread across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Under Beijing\u2019s new national security law, the most influential members of Hong Kong\u2019s civil society were accused of \u201cconspiring to subvert state power\u201d by holding primaries for pro-democracy candidates in the Hong Kong legislative election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/16\/trial-of-the-hong-kong-47-symbolises-chinas-attempts-to-dissolve-civil-society\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say Chinese authorities want to send the message that critical voices deemed a threat to the regime will be erasedWhen Hong Kong police arrested dozens of pro-democracy politicians, lawyers, scholars, journalists, NGO workers and activists in e&#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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52652","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\/52652","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=52652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52653,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52652\/revisions\/52653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}