{"id":10676,"date":"2021-01-20T04:49:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118452\/hong-kong-protests-queens-counsel-hired-prosecute-jimmy-lai"},"modified":"2021-01-20T04:49:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:49:30","slug":"hong-kong-protests-queens-counsel-hired-to-prosecute-jimmy-lai-eight-others-steps-down-amid-withering-criticism-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/hong-kong-protests-queens-counsel-hired-to-prosecute-jimmy-lai-eight-others-steps-down-amid-withering-criticism-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: Queen\u2019s Counsel hired to prosecute Jimmy Lai, eight others steps down amid withering criticism in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"The British Queen\u2019s Counsel hired by the Hong Kong justice department to prosecute media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and eight opposition figures for their roles in a 2019 anti-government protest has dropped the case, citing growing pressure back home.David Perry\u2019s decision to step away from the prosecution emerged just days after British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab dubbed him \u201cmercenary\u201d for accepting the job.\u201cMr Perry, QC, expressed concerns about such pressures and the exemption of\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118452\/hong-kong-protests-queens-counsel-hired-prosecute-jimmy-lai\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Queen\u2019s Counsel hired by the Hong Kong justice department to prosecute media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and eight opposition figures for their roles in a 2019 anti-government protest has dropped the case, citing growing pressure back home.Da&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10829,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions\/10829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}