{"id":8883,"date":"2019-09-11T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/we-cant-do-anything-china-accused-of-muffling-voices-of-hong-kong-supporters"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:09:53","slug":"we-cant-do-anything-china-accused-of-muffling-voices-of-hong-kong-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8883","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We can&#8217;t do anything&#8217;: China accused of muffling voices of Hong Kong supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy groups say activists in mainland China are being threatened or detained for posting messages of support or retweeting news stories <\/p>\n<p>Chen Siming, a 58-year-old Chinese activist, has followed the protests in Hong Kong from afar, feeling inspired but also helpless.<\/p>\n<p>From across the border in the southern province of Hunan, Chen does what he can to support the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/hong-kong-protests-subway-to-airport-shut-down-as-activists-out-in-force\"> thousands calling for greater democracy<\/a> in Hong Kong. In late August, he and more than 20 others posted online selfies of themselves covering their right eye, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/an-eye-for-an-eye-hong-kong-protests-get-figurehead-in-woman-injured-by-police\">gesture of solidarity <\/a>for a young Hong Kong woman who says she was badly injured during a clash between police and protesters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/we-cant-do-anything-china-accused-of-muffling-voices-of-hong-kong-supporters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy groups say activists in mainland China are being threatened or detained for posting messages of support or retweeting news stories Chen Siming, a 58-year-old Chinese activist, has followed the protests in Hong Kong from afar, feeling inspired &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}