{"id":57892,"date":"2023-08-29T10:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T01:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/29\/hong-kong-cantonese-language-group-shuts-down-after-targeting-by-national-security-police"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T05:25:34","slug":"hong-kong-cantonese-language-group-shuts-down-after-targeting-by-national-security-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57892","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears that China\u2019s crackdown on dissidents is expanding into cultural sphere after linguistic group closes over a fictional essay about erosion of liberties<\/p>\n<p>A Cantonese language group has shut down after Hong Kong national security police raided the founder\u2019s home over a fictional essay submitted to the group\u2019s literary competition three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Lok Han Chan, who created and convenes the Societas Linguistica Hongkongensis (SLHK) group, said in a Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hongkonglangstudies\">post<\/a> that the officers from a police division set up to enforce the 2020 national security law, visited a home where some of his family members live last week when he was out of town. The officers, who did not have a search warrant, asked that he remove the essay from his group\u2019s website immediately, he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/29\/hong-kong-cantonese-language-group-shuts-down-after-targeting-by-national-security-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears that China\u2019s crackdown on dissidents is expanding into cultural sphere after linguistic group closes over a fictional essay about erosion of libertiesA Cantonese language group has shut down after Hong Kong national security police raided the fou&#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57892","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\/57892","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=57892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57902,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57892\/revisions\/57902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}