{"id":55597,"date":"2023-05-31T18:35:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/31\/un-experts-express-grave-concern-over-detention-of-jimmy-lai-in-hong-kong-china"},"modified":"2023-05-31T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:35:59","slug":"un-experts-express-grave-concern-over-detention-of-jimmy-lai-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55597","title":{"rendered":"UN experts express \u2018grave concern\u2019 over detention of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communication sent to Beijing government says media mogul\u2019s prosecutions relate to his criticism of China<\/p>\n<p>A group of UN experts have expressed \u201cgrave concern\u201d over the arrest and detention of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/29\/hong-kong-court-rebuffs-effort-to-dismiss-jimmy-lai-national-security-trial\">Jimmy Lai<\/a>, a former media mogul in Hong Kong who has been charged with violating the territory\u2019s national security law.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint communication sent to the Chinese government, the experts from the UN working group on arbitrary detention and several special rapporteurs focused on human rights said Lai\u2019s arrest and multiple prosecutions related to \u201chis criticism of the Chinese government and his support for democracy in Hong Kong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/31\/un-experts-express-grave-concern-over-detention-of-jimmy-lai-in-hong-kong-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication sent to Beijing government says media mogul\u2019s prosecutions relate to his criticism of ChinaA group of UN experts have expressed \u201cgrave concern\u201d over the arrest and detention of Jimmy Lai, a former media mogul in Hong Kong who has been cha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,48,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-united-nations","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\/55597","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55598,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55597\/revisions\/55598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}