{"id":63270,"date":"2024-04-12T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/12\/hong-kong-national-security-law-2020-impacts"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:20:39","slug":"the-old-days-are-no-more-hong-kong-goes-quiet-as-security-laws-tighten-their-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63270","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The old days are no more\u2019: Hong Kong goes quiet as security laws tighten their grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NGOs and bookshops are closing, media organisations are leaving and democracy activists are on trial<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdeas are bulletproof\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2024\/04\/02\/in-pictures-hong-kong-book-lovers-bid-farewell-to-independent-store-mount-zero\/\">Three words<\/a>, stamped out in multicolour tiles above a doorway, represented one of the last vestiges of Hong Kong\u2019s once vibrant literary spaces. On 31 March, Mount Zero, a beloved independent bookstore in Hong Kong, closed its doors for the final time. Hundreds of Hongkongers came to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>The bookshop, which opened in 2018, took its slogan from the 2005 film V for Vendetta; the eponymous antihero\u2019s Guy Fawkes mask occasionally appeared during Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/12\/hong-kong-national-security-law-2020-impacts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGOs and bookshops are closing, media organisations are leaving and democracy activists are on trial\u201cIdeas are bulletproof\u201d. Three words, stamped out in multicolour tiles above a doorway, represented one of the last vestiges of Hong Kong\u2019s once vibrant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3621,"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":[41,50,457,48,3034,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","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\/63270","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\/3621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63271,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63270\/revisions\/63271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}