{"id":64474,"date":"2024-05-28T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/28\/hong-kong-police-arrest-six-people-under-new-security-law"},"modified":"2024-05-28T20:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:25:38","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-six-people-under-new-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64474","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police arrest six people under new security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chow Hang-tung, a prominent barrister, among those held over social media posts before Tiananmen Square anniversary<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have arrested six people, marking the first time that the city\u2019s new national security law, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/25\/hong-kongs-article-23-national-security-law-explained-in-30-seconds\">Article 23<\/a>, has been used against suspects since it was implemented in March.<\/p>\n<p>The six people, aged between 37 and 65, are accused of publishing messages with seditious intent ahead of an \u201cupcoming sensitive date\u201d, according to a police statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/28\/hong-kong-police-arrest-six-people-under-new-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chow Hang-tung, a prominent barrister, among those held over social media posts before Tiananmen Square anniversaryHong Kong police have arrested six people, marking the first time that the city\u2019s new national security law, known as Article 23, has bee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,50,48,53,80,235,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-protest","category-social-media","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/64474","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64475,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64474\/revisions\/64475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}