{"id":53500,"date":"2023-03-17T08:43:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T23:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/17\/hong-kong-two-arrested-for-possessing-seditious-childrens-book"},"modified":"2023-03-17T20:53:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:53:39","slug":"hong-kong-two-arrested-for-possessing-seditious-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53500","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: two arrested for possessing \u2018seditious\u2019 children\u2019s book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests believed to be first time police have detained citizens for possessing literature deemed seditious by authorities<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s national security police have arrested two men for possessing children\u2019s books deemed seditious by the authorities, in the latest of a series of moves that underline the state of civil freedoms in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The two men, aged 38 and 50, were arrested and detained after police and customs officers searched their homes and offices and found copies of \u201cseditious publications\u201d that allegedly \u201cincited hatred or contempt\u201d against the Chinese and Hong Kong governments and the judiciary, according to a police press release cited in the local media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/17\/hong-kong-two-arrested-for-possessing-seditious-childrens-book\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests believed to be first time police have detained citizens for possessing literature deemed seditious by authoritiesHong Kong\u2019s national security police have arrested two men for possessing children\u2019s books deemed seditious by the authorities, in &#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/53500","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=53500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53526,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500\/revisions\/53526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}