{"id":56402,"date":"2023-07-03T20:17:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/03\/hong-kong-issues-arrest-warrants-for-eight-overseas-democracy-activists"},"modified":"2023-07-04T00:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T15:58:03","slug":"hong-kong-issues-arrest-warrants-for-eight-overseas-democracy-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56402","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong issues arrest warrants for eight overseas democracy activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warrants criticised as \u2018indictment\u2019 of judiciary with three of those targeted, including Nathan Law, thought to be in UK<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have issued arrest warrants for eight overseas activists days after the third anniversary of the introduction of a national security law that granted authorities sweeping extraterritorial powers to prosecute acts or comments made anywhere in the world that it deems criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Supt Steve Li Kwai-wah, a police officer, told a press conference on Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/nathan-law\">Nathan Law<\/a>, Anna Kwok, Finn Lau, Dennis Kwok, Ted Hui, Kevin Yam, Mung Siu-tat and Yuan Gong-yi, high-profile pro-democracy activists, former lawmakers and legal scholars, \u201chave encouraged sanctions \u2026 to destroy Hong Kong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/03\/hong-kong-issues-arrest-warrants-for-eight-overseas-democracy-activists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warrants criticised as \u2018indictment\u2019 of judiciary with three of those targeted, including Nathan Law, thought to be in UKHong Kong police have issued arrest warrants for eight overseas activists days after the third anniversary of the introduction of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,50,457,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","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\/56402","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56406,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56402\/revisions\/56406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}