{"id":60207,"date":"2023-11-29T22:03:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/29\/closing-arguments-begin-in-trial-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-activists"},"modified":"2023-11-29T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:03:56","slug":"closing-arguments-begin-in-trial-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60207","title":{"rendered":"Closing arguments begin in trial of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge says verdict is \u2018tentatively\u2019 three or four months away after 10 months of hearings<\/p>\n<p>The long-running national security trial of a group of pro-democracy figures known as the Hong Kong 47 began hearing closing arguments on Wednesday, more than 1,000 days after the accused were first arrested and after 10 months of hearings.<\/p>\n<p>The <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\">trial<\/a> is Hong Kong\u2019s biggest since authorities introduced the national security law in June 2020. Ten days have been allowed for closing arguments and on Wednesday one of the judges, Andrew Chan, said a verdict was \u201ctentatively\u201d three or four months away.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/29\/closing-arguments-begin-in-trial-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-activists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge says verdict is \u2018tentatively\u2019 three or four months away after 10 months of hearingsThe long-running national security trial of a group of pro-democracy figures known as the Hong Kong 47 began hearing closing arguments on Wednesday, more than 1,00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,457,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60207","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60208,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60207\/revisions\/60208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}