{"id":76336,"date":"2026-02-11T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/11\/kwok-yin-sang-father-hong-kong-activist-anna-kwok-convicted"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:02:58","slug":"father-of-pro-democracy-activist-anna-kwok-first-to-be-convicted-under-hong-kong-national-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76336","title":{"rendered":"Father of activist Anna Kwok convicted under Hong Kong national security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kwok Yin-sang arrested after he tried to end pro-democracy daughter\u2019s insurance policy and withdraw funds<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong court has found the father of a wanted activist guilty of a national security violation, after he tried to end her insurance policy and withdraw the funds, drawing international criticism for the targeting of relatives of pro-democracy campaigners.<\/p>\n<p>Kwok Yin-sang, 68, is the first person to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/05\/anna-kwok-father-brother-arrested-hong-kong\">charged under a homegrown national security law<\/a>, also known as Article 23, for \u201cattempting to deal with, directly or indirectly, any funds or other financial assets or economic resources\u201d belonging to an absconder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/11\/kwok-yin-sang-father-hong-kong-activist-anna-kwok-convicted\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwok Yin-sang arrested after he tried to end pro-democracy daughter\u2019s insurance policy and withdraw fundsA Hong Kong court has found the father of a wanted activist guilty of a national security violation, after he tried to end her insurance policy and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-76336","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\/76336","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76336\/revisions\/76338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}