{"id":69496,"date":"2025-02-15T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/15\/uk-based-lawyers-for-hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-targeted-by-chinese-state"},"modified":"2025-02-15T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T05:00:28","slug":"uk-based-lawyers-for-hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-targeted-by-chinese-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69496","title":{"rendered":"UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threats<\/p>\n<p>UK-based lawyers have spoken out about being targeted by the Chinese state and its supporters in a campaign of intimidation including surveillance, hacking of bank accounts and rape threats.<\/p>\n<p>The barristers, from Doughty Street Chambers in London, say there has been a coordinated and concerted campaign against them since they began acting for the jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media mogul, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jimmy-lai\">Jimmy Lai<\/a>, three years ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/15\/uk-based-lawyers-for-hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-targeted-by-chinese-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threatsUK-based lawyers have spoken out about being targeted by the Chinese state and its supporters in a campaign of intimidation including s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2960,"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":[3256,50,1003,3034,86,474,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barristers","category-china","category-hacking","category-jimmy-lai","category-law","category-surveillance","category-uk-news","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\/69496","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\/2960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69496\/revisions\/69497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}