{"id":60618,"date":"2023-12-18T19:42:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T10:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/18\/jimmy-lai-trial-hong-kong-updates-media-democracy-advocate"},"modified":"2023-12-18T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T10:42:51","slug":"jimmy-lai-trial-heavy-security-presence-as-landmark-national-security-case-begins-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60618","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai trial: heavy security presence as landmark national security case begins in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media mogul and pro-democracy activist accused of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and faces life in prison<\/p>\n<p>The media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has gone on trial at a heavily guarded Hong Kong court on national security charges that could lead to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Lai\u2019s trial, expected to last months, is one of the most high-profile prosecutions in the Hong Kong government\u2019s crackdown on opposition, and has been widely condemned by rights groups and other governments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/18\/jimmy-lai-trial-hong-kong-updates-media-democracy-advocate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media mogul and pro-democracy activist accused of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and faces life in prisonThe media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has gone on trial at a heavily guarded Hong Kong court on national security charges&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4067,"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":[41,458,50,48,3034,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","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\/60618","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\/4067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60619,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60618\/revisions\/60619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}