{"id":64552,"date":"2024-05-30T22:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/may\/30\/acquitted-defendants-after-hong-kong-national-security-trial-video"},"modified":"2024-05-30T22:49:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:49:23","slug":"we-see-everyones-love-acquitted-defendants-after-hong-kong-national-security-trial-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64552","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We see everyone&#8217;s love&#8217;: acquitted defendants after Hong Kong national security trial \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen people have been found guilty of &#8216;conspiracy to subvert state power&#8217; 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>, in Hong Kong\u2019s largest national security trial.<\/p>\n<p>Two defendants, the former district councillor Lawrence Lau Wai-chung and the former social worker Lee Yue-shun, were acquitted. The 16 people were the only ones to plead not guilty from a group of 47 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown\">charged in early 2021 after mass dawn raids<\/a> on their homes and offices by national security police<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/hong-kong-47-trial-verdict-pro-democracy-campaigners-national-security\"><strong>\u2018Hong Kong 47\u2019 trial: 14 activists found guilty of conspiracy to commit subversion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/may\/30\/acquitted-defendants-after-hong-kong-national-security-trial-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen people have been found guilty of &#8216;conspiracy to subvert state power&#8217; by holding unofficial election primaries in 2020, in Hong Kong\u2019s largest national security trial.Two defendants, the former district councillor Lawrence Lau Wai-chung and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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-64552","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\/64552","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64553,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64552\/revisions\/64553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}