{"id":116908,"date":"2021-04-02T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116908"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:09:16","slug":"seven-convicted-in-hong-kong-over-unauthorized-protest-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116908","title":{"rendered":"Seven convicted in Hong Kong over unauthorized protest in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/world\/Seven-convicted-in-Hong-Kong-over-unauthorized-protest-in-2019-1221925?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/321\/32103015.295.jpg\" alt=\"It was not clear when the group would be sentenced\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>It was not clear when the group would be sentenced<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HONG KONG, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Seven Hong Kong pro-democracy figures were convicted on Thursday for taking part in an unauthorized protest in 2019.<br><br>Prominent pro-democracy activist Martin Lee and media mogul Jimmy Lai were among those found guilty in a Hong Kong court.<br><br>It was not clear when the group would be sentenced.<br><br>The court decision is the latest blow for Hong Kong&#8217;s pro-democracy movement, which Beijing has been cracking down on with a heavy hand.<br><br>In the last few months, especially since the introduction of a controversial national security law in June, numerous well-known activists have been handed lengthy prison sentences for relatively minor offences.<br><br>A number of Hong Kong activists have fled to other countries in fear of prosecution.<br><br>On Tuesday, China approved an electoral reform which means voters will have less say in the make-up of Hong Kong&#8217;s legislative bodies. It effectively reduces the influence of the pro-democracy camp in the legislature.<br><br>Beijing has stated that it wants only what it calls &#8220;patriots&#8221; to govern in Hong Kong, namely politicians who support the central Chinese Communist government.<br><br>Hong Kong was handed over to China by Britain in 1997.<br><br>Under the agreements required for the transfer, the Chinese government allowed Hong Kong and its residents to retain many of the freedoms they had enjoyed as a British colony, including freedom of speech and a separate judiciary, until 2047. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not clear when the group would be sentenced HONG KONG, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Seven Hong Kong pro-democracy figures were convicted on Thursday for taking part in an unauthorized protest in 2019. Prominent pro-democracy activist Martin Lee and media mogul Jimmy Lai were among those found guilty in a Hong Kong court. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}