{"id":65784,"date":"2024-07-22T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/exiled-pro-democracy-hong-kong-activists-blocked-from-accessing-pensions"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T01:00:20","slug":"exiled-pro-democracy-hong-kong-activists-blocked-from-accessing-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65784","title":{"rendered":"Exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists blocked from accessing pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case raises questions about complicity of western financial institutions in persecution of Chinese government critics<\/p>\n<p>Two exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists have been blocked from accessing their pensions, depriving them of tens of thousands of US dollars of their savings and raising questions about the complicity of western financial institutions in the persecution of Chinese government critics.<\/p>\n<p>Assets, including pension savings, belonging to Ted Hui, a former pro-democracy legislator who is now based in Australia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/07\/exiled-hong-kong-legislator-calls-for-inquiry-after-hsbc-freezes-bank-account\">were frozen shortly after he fled from Hong Kong<\/a> in December 2020. The assets are held by HSBC, a British bank.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/exiled-pro-democracy-hong-kong-activists-blocked-from-accessing-pensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case raises questions about complicity of western financial institutions in persecution of Chinese government criticsTwo exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists have been blocked from accessing their pensions, depriving them of tens of thousands of US&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[559,41,43,50,48,1070,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-hsbc","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\/65784","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65785,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65784\/revisions\/65785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}