{"id":66480,"date":"2024-08-29T21:04:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/two-stand-news-journalists-hong-kong-guilty-sedition"},"modified":"2024-08-29T21:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T12:04:22","slug":"two-stand-news-journalists-in-hong-kong-found-guilty-of-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66480","title":{"rendered":"Two Stand News journalists in Hong Kong found guilty of sedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Patten condemns \u2018dark day for press freedom\u2019 as Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam convicted over 11 articles<\/p>\n<p>Two journalists from the closed Hong Kong media outlet Stand News have been found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious materials \u2013 the first such convictions since Hong Kong\u2019s return to Chinese control \u2013 after a trial that was closely observed as a bellwether for the city\u2019s diminishing press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam were arrested on 29 December 2021 after police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/hong-kong-police-arrest-six-journalists-from-independent-media-outlet-stand-news\">raided the outlet\u2019s newsroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/two-stand-news-journalists-hong-kong-guilty-sedition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Patten condemns \u2018dark day for press freedom\u2019 as Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam convicted over 11 articlesTwo journalists from the closed Hong Kong media outlet Stand News have been found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious materials \u2013 the f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"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":[41,50,954,48,669,238,672,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chris-patten","category-hong-kong","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","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\/66480","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\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66481,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66480\/revisions\/66481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}