{"id":66772,"date":"2024-09-16T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/16\/chu-kai-pong-hong-kong-first-conviction-sedition-charge"},"modified":"2024-09-16T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:11:09","slug":"hong-kong-first-person-convicted-under-security-law-for-wearing-protest-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66772","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: first person convicted under security law for wearing protest T-shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to \u2018act with seditious intent\u2019 for displaying slogan: \u2018Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A man in Hong Kong has pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person to be convicted under the city\u2019s controversial national security law known as Article 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/23\/hong-kongs-new-national-security-law-comes-into-force\">passed in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of \u201cdoing acts with seditious intent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/16\/chu-kai-pong-hong-kong-first-conviction-sedition-charge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to \u2018act with seditious intent\u2019 for displaying slogan: \u2018Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times\u2019A man in Hong Kong has pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-66772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66772","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66773,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66772\/revisions\/66773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}