{"id":64837,"date":"2024-06-11T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/11\/hong-kong-slowly-becoming-totalitarian-state-says-uk-judge-jonathan-sumption"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:37:21","slug":"hong-kong-is-slowly-becoming-a-totalitarian-state-says-uk-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64837","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong is \u2018slowly becoming a totalitarian state\u200b\u2019, says UK judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bL\u200bord Sumption, who last week quit territory\u2019s top court\u200b, speaks out on \u2018paranoid atmosphere\u2019 under Chinese rule<\/p>\n<p>A British judge has described the \u201cparanoid atmosphere\u201d in Hong Kong as he explained his decision to step down from the territory\u2019s top court.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Sumption, along with another British judge, Lawrence Collins, last week resigned from Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal (CFA).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/11\/hong-kong-slowly-becoming-totalitarian-state-says-uk-judge-jonathan-sumption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bL\u200bord Sumption, who last week quit territory\u2019s top court\u200b, speaks out on \u2018paranoid atmosphere\u2019 under Chinese ruleA British judge has described the \u201cparanoid atmosphere\u201d in Hong Kong as he explained his decision to step down from the territory\u2019s top co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2545,"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":[41,50,48,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law","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\/64837","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\/2545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64838,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64837\/revisions\/64838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}