{"id":71374,"date":"2025-04-29T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/29\/hong-kong-47-four-pro-democracy-lawmakers-released-from-jail"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:02:49","slug":"four-pro-democracy-lawmakers-from-hong-kong-47-group-freed-after-four-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71374","title":{"rendered":"Four pro-democracy lawmakers from \u2018Hong Kong 47\u2019 group freed after four years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claudia Mo, Kwok Ka-ki, Jeremy Tam and Gary Fan among those released on Tuesday after prosecution criticised as politically motivated<\/p>\n<p>Four members of the \u201cHong Kong 47\u201d group of pro-democracy campaigners and activists jailed on contentious national security convictions have been freed.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Mo, Kwok Ka-ki, Jeremy Tam and Gary Fan are the first of the group to be released from jail, after serving sentences of more than four years. The group &#8211; tried together in Hong Kong\u2019s largest ever national security trial &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/19\/who-are-the-hong-kong-47-hk47-trial-pro-democracy-activists\">were sentenced in November<\/a>. However most of them, including the four released on Tuesday, had already spent several years detained after courts denied bail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/29\/hong-kong-47-four-pro-democracy-lawmakers-released-from-jail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claudia Mo, Kwok Ka-ki, Jeremy Tam and Gary Fan among those released on Tuesday after prosecution criticised as politically motivatedFour members of the \u201cHong Kong 47\u201d group of pro-democracy campaigners and activists jailed on contentious national secu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/71374","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71375,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71374\/revisions\/71375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}