{"id":56419,"date":"2023-07-04T12:57:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T03:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/04\/hong-kong-activists-china-uk-protecting-fugitives-national-security-law"},"modified":"2023-07-04T12:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T03:57:58","slug":"china-accuses-uk-of-protecting-fugitives-after-bounty-put-on-hong-kong-democracy-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56419","title":{"rendered":"China accuses UK of protecting \u2018fugitives\u2019 after bounty put on Hong Kong democracy activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese embassy in London tells UK to \u2018stop interfering\u2019 in China\u2019s affairs, as Hong Kong leader says overseas activists will be \u2018pursued for life\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China has accused the UK of protecting fugitives after the British foreign secretary criticised Hong Kong\u2019s decision to offer HK$1m bounties for the arrest of eight democracy activists based overseas, as the territory\u2019s leader said the group would be \u201cpursued for life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement late on Monday, China\u2019s embassy in London said: \u201cBritish politicians have openly offered protection for fugitives. This is crude interference in Hong Kong\u2019s rule of law and China\u2019s internal affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/04\/hong-kong-activists-china-uk-protecting-fugitives-national-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese embassy in London tells UK to \u2018stop interfering\u2019 in China\u2019s affairs, as Hong Kong leader says overseas activists will be \u2018pursued for life\u2019China has accused the UK of protecting fugitives after the British foreign secretary criticised Hong Kong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3584,"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":[41,43,50,48,52,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-uk-news","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56419","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\/3584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56419\/revisions\/56420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}