{"id":57626,"date":"2023-08-17T09:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T00:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/gangster-tactic-the-true-aim-behind-hong-kongs-pursuit-of-overseas-dissidents"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T00:03:26","slug":"gangster-tactic-the-true-aim-behind-hong-kongs-pursuit-of-overseas-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57626","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gangster tactic\u2019: the true aim behind Hong Kong\u2019s pursuit of overseas dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police targeting pro-democracy activists abroad have questioned their family and put out bounties, but there is a broader, more chilling, objective behind the operation<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Hong Kong national security police have embarked on a tactic more commonly associated with their counterparts in mainland China. In early July, Hong Kong police announced arrest warrants and HK$1m bounties for eight dissidents currently in exile overseas. Just days later officers began showing up at their families\u2019 homes in Hong Kong, taking away parents, siblings, children and in-laws for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>None of the family members have been arrested or charged. Observers and supporters say while there is still fear that could happen, it isn\u2019t really the point.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/gangster-tactic-the-true-aim-behind-hong-kongs-pursuit-of-overseas-dissidents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police targeting pro-democracy activists abroad have questioned their family and put out bounties, but there is a broader, more chilling, objective behind the operationIn recent weeks, Hong Kong national security police have embarked on a tactic more 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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/57626","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=57626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57627,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57626\/revisions\/57627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}