{"id":66185,"date":"2024-08-12T23:53:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/conviction-of-hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-unjust-says-chris-patten"},"modified":"2024-08-12T23:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:53:49","slug":"conviction-of-hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-unjust-says-chris-patten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66185","title":{"rendered":"Conviction of Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai \u2018unjust\u2019, says Chris Patten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former governor speaks out after appeal court upholds convictions of seven activists over 2019 protest<\/p>\n<p>Chris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, has decried as \u201cunjust\u201d a decision by the Chinese city\u2019s top court to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/jimmy-lai-democracy-advocate-hong-kong-court-rejects-appeal\">uphold the conviction<\/a> of Jimmy Lai and other prominent pro-democracy activists for participating in a peaceful protest in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal unanimously agreed to uphold the convictions of seven activists who participated in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/18\/hong-kong-huge-rally-china-condemns-us-gross-interference\">unauthorised 2019 protest<\/a> in which 1.7 million people \u2013 roughly a quarter of Hong Kong\u2019s population \u2013 took to the streets to oppose Beijing\u2019s tightening grip on the city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/conviction-of-hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-unjust-says-chris-patten\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former governor speaks out after appeal court upholds convictions of seven activists over 2019 protestChris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, has decried as \u201cunjust\u201d a decision by the Chinese city\u2019s top court to uphold the conviction of Jimmy L&#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":[41,50,954,3147,48,3034,3124,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chris-patten","category-david-neuberger","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","category-judiciary","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\/66185","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=66185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66186,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66185\/revisions\/66186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}