{"id":64524,"date":"2024-05-30T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/hong-kong-47-trial-verdict-pro-democracy-campaigners-national-security"},"modified":"2024-05-31T01:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T16:16:00","slug":"hong-kong-47-trial-first-verdicts-due-after-national-security-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64524","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hong Kong 47\u2019 trial: 14 activists found guilty of conspiracy to commit subversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western governments condemn verdict in biggest case since introduction of national security law<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen people have been found guilty of subversion by a court in Hong Kong in the biggest case against pro-democracy campaigners \u2013 against a group known as the \u201cHong Kong 47\u201d \u2013 since China imposed a national security law to crush dissent.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of judges handpicked by Hong Kong\u2019s government found that the convicted people \u2013 one organiser and 13 candidates, almost all of them former politicians \u2013 had committed the national security offence of \u201cconspiracy to subvert state power\u201d by holding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/hong-kong-primaries-china-declares-pro-democracy-polls-illegal\">unofficial election primaries in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/hong-kong-47-trial-verdict-pro-democracy-campaigners-national-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western governments condemn verdict in biggest case since introduction of national security lawFourteen people have been found guilty of subversion by a court in Hong Kong in the biggest case against pro-democracy campaigners \u2013 against a group known as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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-64524","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\/64524","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64549,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64524\/revisions\/64549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}