{"id":62428,"date":"2024-03-08T14:01:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/08\/new-hong-kong-national-security-law-treason-life-sentence-article-23"},"modified":"2024-03-08T14:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:01:04","slug":"treason-could-mean-life-sentence-under-new-hong-kong-national-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62428","title":{"rendered":"Treason could mean life sentence under new Hong Kong national security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debate has begun on Article 23 \u2013 legislation designed to bring laws closer to those of mainland China<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s government has released the draft text of a new national security law that would further tighten control on the city and bring its laws closer in line with mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>The law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/30\/hong-kong-article-23-new-national-security-laws-explained-what-do-they-mean\">known as Article 23<\/a>, is a domestic piece of legislation defining and penalising crimes related to national security.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/08\/new-hong-kong-national-security-law-treason-life-sentence-article-23\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debate has begun on Article 23 \u2013 legislation designed to bring laws closer to those of mainland ChinaHong Kong\u2019s government has released the draft text of a new national security law that would further tighten control on the city and bring its laws clo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,48,53,86,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-law","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\/62428","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62429,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62428\/revisions\/62429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}