{"id":72164,"date":"2025-06-07T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/07\/jailed-hong-kong-democracy-activist-joshua-wong-hit-with-new-charges"},"modified":"2025-06-07T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T02:50:44","slug":"jailed-hong-kong-democracy-activist-joshua-wong-hit-with-new-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72164","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong hit with new charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wong accused of conspiracy in move rights groups condemn as \u2018outrageous\u2019 attempt to keep influential dissident imprisoned<\/p>\n<p>Jailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been hit with further national security charges, a move rights groups said showed the Hong Kong government was trying to keep dissidents behind bars for as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Wong, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/jan\/18\/unfree-speech-joshua-wong-extract\">a well-known activist<\/a> who has been in jail for more than four years either awaiting trial or serving sentences, is accused of conspiracy to collude with a foreign country. He appeared in court on Friday to hear the charge and did not apply for bail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/07\/jailed-hong-kong-democracy-activist-joshua-wong-hit-with-new-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wong accused of conspiracy in move rights groups condemn as \u2018outrageous\u2019 attempt to keep influential dissident imprisonedJailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been hit with further national security charges, a move rights groups said showed the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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-72164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72164","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72165,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72164\/revisions\/72165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}