{"id":71492,"date":"2025-05-05T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/05\/anna-kwok-father-brother-arrested-hong-kong"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:23:58","slug":"rights-groups-condemn-arrest-of-hong-kong-activist-anna-kwoks-father-and-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71492","title":{"rendered":"Rights groups condemn arrest of Hong Kong activist Anna Kwok\u2019s father and brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests are the first case of the city\u2019s national security law being used to target the relatives of pro-democracy campaigners<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups have condemned the arrest of relatives of Anna Kwok, an exiled pro-democracy activist who is wanted by the Hong Kong police, in the first example of the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/23\/hong-kongs-new-national-security-law-comes-into-force\">national security law<\/a> being used to target the family members of an activist living overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Kwok, 28, is the executive director of the Washington-based Hong Kong Democracy Council, and is one of 19 overseas activists wanted by the national security police, who are offering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/24\/hong-kong-police-bounties-pro-democracy-activists-overseas\">bounties<\/a> of HK$1m (\u00a397,000) for information leading to arrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/05\/anna-kwok-father-brother-arrested-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests are the first case of the city\u2019s national security law being used to target the relatives of pro-democracy campaignersHuman rights groups have condemned the arrest of relatives of Anna Kwok, an exiled pro-democracy activist who is wanted by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71492","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\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71493,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71492\/revisions\/71493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}