{"id":57038,"date":"2023-07-28T19:25:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T10:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/28\/court-rejects-attempt-ban-glory-hong-kong-protest-song"},"modified":"2023-07-28T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T10:25:15","slug":"hong-kong-judge-defies-governments-bid-to-ban-pro-democracy-protest-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57038","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong judge defies government\u2019s bid to ban pro-democracy protest song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge refuses Hong Kong government\u2019s request for injunction against Glory to Hong Kong, saying it could have chilling effect<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s high court has rejected a government attempt to ban a protest song, Glory to Hong Kong, saying an injunction could create a chilling effect and undermine freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>The government had sought the injunction banning online publication or distribution of the song, arguing it insulted China\u2019s national anthem and could give people the impression that Hong Kong was an independent country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/28\/court-rejects-attempt-ban-glory-hong-kong-protest-song\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge refuses Hong Kong government\u2019s request for injunction against Glory to Hong Kong, saying it could have chilling effectHong Kong\u2019s high court has rejected a government attempt to ban a protest song, Glory to Hong Kong, saying an injunction could c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,458,457,48,425,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-music","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\/57038","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57039,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038\/revisions\/57039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}