{"id":69608,"date":"2025-02-21T12:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T03:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/21\/hong-kong-democratic-party-disbanding-lo-kin-hei"},"modified":"2025-02-21T19:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:52:32","slug":"hong-kongs-oldest-pro-democracy-party-says-it-will-begin-process-of-disbanding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69608","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s oldest pro-democracy party says it will begin process of disbanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic party chair Lo Kin-hei would not comment on whether Beijing put pressure on members<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s oldest pro-democracy party, which became an influential voice of opposition before Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/02\/beijing-repression-forces-hong-kong-opposition-into-new-tactics\">cracked down on dissent<\/a>, will start preparations to shut down, its leader has said.<\/p>\n<p>Lo Kin-hei, the chair of Hong Kong\u2019s Democratic party, said on Thursday: \u201cWe are going to proceed and study on the process and procedure that is needed for the disbanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/21\/hong-kong-democratic-party-disbanding-lo-kin-hei\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic party chair Lo Kin-hei would not comment on whether Beijing put pressure on membersHong Kong\u2019s oldest pro-democracy party, which became an influential voice of opposition before Beijing cracked down on dissent, will start preparations to shu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-69608","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\/69608","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69613,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69608\/revisions\/69613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}