{"id":7914,"date":"2020-03-29T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2020-03-29T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:59:25","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-opposition-politician-under-colonial-era-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7914","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Police Arrest Opposition Politician Under Colonial-Era Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hong-kong-police-arrest-opposition-politician-under-colonial-era-law-11585226921\">Natasha Khan<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities arrested an elected opposition politician under a British colonial-era anti-sedition law after she shared a Facebook post containing personal information of a police officer who allegedly shot a journalist, as recriminations continue from the protests that swept the city for more than half a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 1 a.m. Thursday, Hong Kong police arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=Cheng%20Lai-king&amp;ia=news\">Cheng Lai-king<\/a>, a member of the Democratic Party who serves as chairwoman of her district\u2019s local council. Police said Ms. Cheng had been arrested for \u201cseditious&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Khan: Authorities arrested an elected opposition politician under a British colonial-era anti-sedition law after she shared a Facebook post containing personal information of a police officer who allegedly shot a journalist, as recriminations continue from the protests that swept the city for more than half a year. Around 1 a.m. Thursday, Hong Kong police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}