{"id":72028,"date":"2025-05-30T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/30\/hong-kong-releases-second-group-democrats-jailed-four-years-national-security-trial"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:57:25","slug":"hong-kong-releases-second-group-of-democrats-jailed-for-four-years-in-national-security-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72028","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong releases second group of democrats jailed for four years in national security trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among those freed was long-time political and LGBTQ activist Jimmy Sham, who also led one of Hong Kong\u2019s largest pro-democracy groups<\/p>\n<p>Four people jailed in the landmark national security trial of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong <\/a>47\u201d, the pro-democracy figures accused of conspiracy to commit subversion, were freed on Friday after more than four years behind bars, the second group to be released in a month.<\/p>\n<p>Among those freed was longtime political and LGBTQ activist Jimmy Sham, who also led one of Hong Kong\u2019s largest pro-democracy groups, the Civil Human Rights Front, which disbanded in 2021.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/30\/hong-kong-releases-second-group-democrats-jailed-four-years-national-security-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among those freed was long-time political and LGBTQ activist Jimmy Sham, who also led one of Hong Kong\u2019s largest pro-democracy groupsFour people jailed in the landmark national security trial of the \u201cHong Kong 47\u201d, the pro-democracy figures accused of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4775,"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-72028","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\/72028","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\/4775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72029,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72028\/revisions\/72029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}