{"id":56430,"date":"2023-07-04T16:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T07:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/04\/hong-kong-leader-says-overseas-activists-will-be-pursued-for-life-video"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T07:56:50","slug":"hong-kong-leader-says-overseas-activists-will-be-pursued-for-life-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56430","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader says overseas activists will be &#8216;pursued for life&#8217; \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong chief executive John Lee said the only way for eight overseas-based Hong Kong activists to end their lives &#8216;on the run&#8217; was &#8216;through surrender&#8217;. Hong Kong police issued arrest warrants for the activists 24 hours earlier, accusing them of offences including foreign collusion and incitement to secession, and offered rewards of HK$1m (\u00a3101,000) for information leading to each possible arrest. The accused activists \u2013 based in several countries, including the US, Britain and Australia \u2013 are wanted under a national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in 2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/03\/hong-kong-issues-arrest-warrants-for-eight-overseas-democracy-activists\">Hong Kong issues arrest warrants for eight overseas democracy activists<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/04\/hong-kong-activists-china-uk-protecting-fugitives-national-security-law\">China accuses UK of protecting \u2018fugitives\u2019 after bounty put on Hong Kong democracy activists<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/jul\/04\/australia-based-lawyer-kevin-yam-vows-not-to-shut-up-after-hong-kong-arrest-warrant\">Australia-based lawyer Kevin Yam vows \u2018not to shut up\u2019 after Hong Kong arrest warrant<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/04\/hong-kong-leader-says-overseas-activists-will-be-pursued-for-life-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong chief executive John Lee said the only way for eight overseas-based Hong Kong activists to end their lives &#8216;on the run&#8217; was &#8216;through surrender&#8217;. Hong Kong police issued arrest warrants for the activists 24 hours earlier, accusing them of offe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/56430","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56431,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56430\/revisions\/56431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}