{"id":11761,"date":"2021-01-22T13:52:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118911\/arrest-hong-kong-opposition-figures-fairly-obvious-abuse"},"modified":"2021-01-22T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T13:52:06","slug":"arrest-of-hong-kong-opposition-figures-a-fairly-obvious-abuse-of-law-says-new-head-of-citys-bar-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/arrest-of-hong-kong-opposition-figures-a-fairly-obvious-abuse-of-law-says-new-head-of-citys-bar-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of Hong Kong opposition figures a \u2018fairly obvious\u2019 abuse of law, says new head of city\u2019s Bar Association"},"content":{"rendered":"The new head of Hong Kong\u2019s Bar Association has called the arrest of 55 opposition figures an attempt to intimidate the city\u2019s democratic movement, and warned against attacks on his colleagues in pro-Beijing media.Just hours after Paul Harris became the group\u2019s new chairman, an editorial in Ta Kung Po on Friday accused the veteran human rights barrister of having a political mission to fulfil, after he called for the national security law to be amended.In a wide-ranging interview with the Post,\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118911\/arrest-hong-kong-opposition-figures-fairly-obvious-abuse\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new head of Hong Kong\u2019s Bar Association has called the arrest of 55 opposition figures an attempt to intimidate the city\u2019s democratic movement, and warned against attacks on his colleagues in pro-Beijing media.Just hours after Paul Harris became th&#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\/11761"}],"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=11761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11762,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions\/11762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}