{"id":7690,"date":"2019-08-24T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/24\/uk-consulate-worker-hong-kong-simon-cheng-detained-in-china-is-freed"},"modified":"2019-08-24T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T06:25:21","slug":"uk-consulate-worker-detained-in-china-is-freed-in-hong-kong-says-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7690","title":{"rendered":"UK consulate worker detained in China is freed in Hong Kong, says family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cheng is back in Hong Kong, say relatives and friends, after weeks of detention in mainland China<\/p>\n<p>A staff member at the British consulate in Hong Kong who was detained in mainland China has been released, his family said on Saturday, ending an ordeal that lasted more than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimon [Cheng] has returned to Hong Kong. Thanks to everyone for your support!\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=117673562927350&amp;id=114456586582381\">an online message<\/a> from Rescue Simon Cheng Facebook page run by his family and friends. It said Cheng and his family needed \u201ctime and space\u201d to rest and recover and would not take any interviews for the moment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/24\/uk-consulate-worker-hong-kong-simon-cheng-detained-in-china-is-freed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cheng is back in Hong Kong, say relatives and friends, after weeks of detention in mainland ChinaA staff member at the British consulate in Hong Kong who was detained in mainland China has been released, his family said on Saturday, ending an ord&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,50,48,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7691,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}