{"id":59848,"date":"2023-11-14T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/14\/hong-kong-lecture-by-british-barrister-linked-to-jimmy-lai-trial-cancelled"},"modified":"2023-11-14T22:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:26:23","slug":"hong-kong-lecture-by-british-barrister-linked-to-jimmy-lai-trial-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59848","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong lecture by British barrister linked to Jimmy Lai trial cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Owen, who in May was blocked from representing the activist Jimmy Lai, was due to give a talk on law and democracy<\/p>\n<p>A lecture in Hong Kong by the British barrister embroiled in a legal battle over whether he can represent the pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been cancelled without explanation, raising concerns about the diminishing space for free speech in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Owen KC was due to give a talk entitled \u201cJudges, Democracy and the Criminal Law\u201d at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on 17 November. But on Tuesday, the lecture was cancelled without explanation,<strong> <\/strong>with the university citing \u201cunforeseen circumstances\u201d. The website for the law faculty appears to be offline.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/14\/hong-kong-lecture-by-british-barrister-linked-to-jimmy-lai-trial-cancelled\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Owen, who in May was blocked from representing the activist Jimmy Lai, was due to give a talk on law and democracyA lecture in Hong Kong by the British barrister embroiled in a legal battle over whether he can represent the pro-democracy activi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,48,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-uk-news","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\/59848","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59849,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59848\/revisions\/59849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}