{"id":1541907,"date":"2024-03-08T05:01:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/08\/new-hong-kong-national-security-law-treason-life-sentence-article-23"},"modified":"2024-03-08T05:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:01:04","slug":"treason-could-mean-life-sentence-under-new-hong-kong-national-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/08\/treason-could-mean-life-sentence-under-new-hong-kong-national-security-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Treason could mean life sentence under new Hong Kong national security law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Debate has begun on Article 23 \u2013 legislation designed to bring laws closer to those of mainland China<\/p>

Hong Kong\u2019s government has released the draft text of a new national security law that would further tighten control on the city and bring its laws closer in line with mainland China.<\/p>

The law, known as Article 23<\/a>, is a domestic piece of legislation defining and penalising crimes related to national security.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Debate has begun on Article 23 \u2013 legislation designed to bring laws closer to those of mainland ChinaHong Kong\u2019s government has released the draft text of a new national security law that would further tighten control on the city and bring its laws clo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,651,6,640,1156,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541907"}],"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\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541908,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541907\/revisions\/1541908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}