{"id":62676,"date":"2024-03-19T22:04:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/hong-kong-new-national-security-law-dissent"},"modified":"2024-03-19T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:57:12","slug":"hong-kong-lawmakers-pass-new-measures-to-quash-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62676","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong lawmakers pass new measures to quash dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say national security law cracking down on offences such as insurrection will further erode civil liberties<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s parliament has passed a controversial national security law granting the government more power to quash dissent, widely seen as the latest step in a sweeping political crackdown triggered by pro-democracy protests in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the safeguarding national security law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/08\/new-hong-kong-national-security-law-treason-life-sentence-article-23\">also known as article 23<\/a>, say it will further erode the city\u2019s rights and freedoms and usher in a new era of authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/hong-kong-new-national-security-law-dissent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say national security law cracking down on offences such as insurrection will further erode civil libertiesHong Kong\u2019s parliament has passed a controversial national security law granting the government more power to quash dissent, widely seen &#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/62676","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=62676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62688,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676\/revisions\/62688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}