{"id":59553,"date":"2023-11-01T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T00:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/01\/hong-kong-over-the-top-punishment-for-2019-democracy-protesters-report-finds"},"modified":"2023-11-01T09:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T00:25:26","slug":"hong-kong-over-the-top-punishment-for-2019-democracy-protesters-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59553","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: over-the-top punishment for 2019 democracy protesters, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 arrests and nearly 3,000 prosecutions, with 82% given jail including \u2018extraordinary high\u2019 proportion of children<\/p>\n<p>Protesters involved in the 2019-2020 pro-democracy movement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a> have been treated extraordinarily harshly by the criminal justice system compared with local and international norms, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/law-asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/10\/GCAL-HK-2019-ARREST-DATA-REPORT-FINAL-OCT-2023.pdf\">report<\/a> has found.<\/p>\n<p>The surge in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/04\/hong-kong-47-trial-of-dozens-in-pro-democracy-movement-set-to-begin-under-national-security-laws\">arrests, detentions and charges<\/a> in the wake of the anti-extradition bill protests that saw millions of Hongkongers taking to the streets to oppose closer ties with mainland China meant that the criminal justice system was put under \u201cextreme stress\u201d, according to Jun Chan, Eric Yan-ho Lai and Thomas E Kellogg at the Center for Asian Law of Georgetown University.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/01\/hong-kong-over-the-top-punishment-for-2019-democracy-protesters-report-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 arrests and nearly 3,000 prosecutions, with 82% given jail including \u2018extraordinary high\u2019 proportion of childrenProtesters involved in the 2019-2020 pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong have been treated extraordinarily harshly by the c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3706,"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":[41,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/59553","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\/3706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59554,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59553\/revisions\/59554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}