{"id":63925,"date":"2024-05-09T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/09\/court-bans-glory-to-hong-kong-protest-song-free-speech"},"modified":"2024-05-09T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T01:28:10","slug":"court-bans-glory-to-hong-kong-protest-song-prompting-further-fears-for-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63925","title":{"rendered":"Court bans Glory to Hong Kong protest song prompting further fears for free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The territory\u2019s justice minister has called for the anthem to be removed from the internet in the wake of the ruling<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has demanded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/15\/protest-anthem-glory-to-hong-kong-starts-to-vanish-from-online-sites-as-government-seeks-ban\">protest song that was made popular<\/a> during pro-democracy demonstrations in the territory be removed from the internet, in the wake of a court ruling which banned it.<\/p>\n<p>In its judgment on Wednesday, the court of appeal described the song Glory to Hong Kong as a \u201cweapon\u201d to incite violent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/12\/hong-kong-national-security-law-2020-impacts\">protests in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/09\/court-bans-glory-to-hong-kong-protest-song-free-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The territory\u2019s justice minister has called for the anthem to be removed from the internet in the wake of the rulingHong Kong has demanded a protest song that was made popular during pro-democracy demonstrations in the territory be removed from the int&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63925","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63926,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63925\/revisions\/63926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}