{"id":57546,"date":"2023-08-14T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/14\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-advocates-have-part-of-convictions-quashed-jimmy-lai-martin-lee-margaret-ng-"},"modified":"2023-08-14T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:57:03","slug":"hong-kong-pro-democracy-advocates-have-part-of-convictions-quashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57546","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong pro-democracy advocates have part of convictions quashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee, Margaret Ng and four others had their convictions for organising an unauthorised assembly overturned <\/p>\n<p>Seven of Hong Kong\u2019s most prominent pro-democracy advocates have had part of their convictions quashed by Hong Kong\u2019s court of appeal, over their roles in one of the biggest pro-democracy protests in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Lai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/jimmy-lai-editors-from-around-the-world-call-for-release-of-hong-kong-media-mogul\">founder of the now defunct Apple Daily newspaper<\/a>; Martin Lee, the founding chairman of the city\u2019s Democratic party; and five former pro-democracy lawmakers, including barrister Margaret Ng, had been found guilty of organising and participating an unauthorised assembly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/14\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-advocates-have-part-of-convictions-quashed-jimmy-lai-martin-lee-margaret-ng-\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee, Margaret Ng and four others had their convictions for organising an unauthorised assembly overturned Seven of Hong Kong\u2019s most prominent pro-democracy advocates have had part of their convictions quashed by Hong Kong\u2019s court of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/57546","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57557,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546\/revisions\/57557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}