{"id":11230,"date":"2021-01-21T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118716\/national-security-law-hong-kong-district-councillors-will"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:34:09","slug":"national-security-law-hong-kong-district-councillors-will-be-required-to-pledge-allegiance-to-city-top-official-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/national-security-law-hong-kong-district-councillors-will-be-required-to-pledge-allegiance-to-city-top-official-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"National security law: Hong Kong district councillors will be required to pledge allegiance to city, top official reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"More than 400 Hong Kong district councillors will be required to pledge allegiance to the city, as the government plans to amend the oaths ordinance as early as next month, a top official has confirmed.Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang Kwok-wai revealed the move in the Legislative Council on Thursday as lawmakers continued a debate on the city leader\u2019s policy address in November last year.Under Article 6 of the national security law, which Beijing imposed on Hong\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118716\/national-security-law-hong-kong-district-councillors-will\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 Hong Kong district councillors will be required to pledge allegiance to the city, as the government plans to amend the oaths ordinance as early as next month, a top official has confirmed.Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"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\/11230"}],"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\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11231,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions\/11231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}