{"id":56336,"date":"2023-06-30T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-radio-station-closes-citing-dangerous-political-situation"},"modified":"2023-06-30T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:00:39","slug":"hong-kong-pro-democracy-radio-station-closes-citing-dangerous-political-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56336","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station closes citing \u2018dangerous\u2019 political situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens\u2019 Radio to close on third anniversary of national security law that has led to demise of several other liberal media outlets<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy online Citizens\u2019 Radio station will cease operations on Friday owing to what its founder described as a \u201cdangerous\u201d political situation and the freezing of its bank account.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2005 by veteran activist Tsang Kin-shing, the Cantonese-language broadcaster gained a steady following for its hard-hitting talkshows that were critical of authorities, as well as its years-long campaign for press freedom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-radio-station-closes-citing-dangerous-political-situation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens\u2019 Radio to close on third anniversary of national security law that has led to demise of several other liberal media outletsHong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy online Citizens\u2019 Radio station will cease operations on Friday owing to what its founder descr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3823,"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":[41,48,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-media","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\/56336","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\/3823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56337,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56336\/revisions\/56337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}