{"id":73196,"date":"2025-07-31T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/31\/hong-kong-democracy-campaigner-accuses-uk-police-of-asking-her-self-censor"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:11:42","slug":"hong-kong-democracy-campaigner-accuses-uk-police-of-asking-her-to-self-censor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73196","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong democracy campaigner accuses UK police of asking her to \u2018self-censor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Thames Valley police requested Carmen Lau \u2018avoid public gatherings\u2019 after neighbours received bounty letters<\/p>\n<p>A former Hong Kong politician and prominent democracy campaigner has accused British police of asking her to \u201cself-censor\u201d and \u201cretreat from public life\u201d after officers asked her to agree to avoid public gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>The request, outlined in a signed \u201cmemorandum of understanding\u201d seen by the Guardian, has alarmed exiled dissidents who fear it may embolden attempts to silence criticism of Chinese and Hong Kong officials worldwide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/31\/hong-kong-democracy-campaigner-accuses-uk-police-of-asking-her-self-censor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Thames Valley police requested Carmen Lau \u2018avoid public gatherings\u2019 after neighbours received bounty lettersA former Hong Kong politician and prominent democracy campaigner has accused British police of asking her to \u201cself-censor\u201d and \u201cretre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4876,"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":[41,50,1879,457,1440,48,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-freedom-of-speech","category-home-office","category-hong-kong","category-politics","category-uk-news","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\/73196","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\/4876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73197,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73196\/revisions\/73197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}