{"id":19474,"date":"2021-02-03T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/second-lawyer-barred-after-defending-hong-kong-democracy-activist"},"modified":"2021-02-03T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:22:21","slug":"second-lawyer-barred-after-defending-hong-kong-democracy-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/03\/second-lawyer-barred-after-defending-hong-kong-democracy-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Second lawyer barred after defending Hong Kong democracy activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ren Quanniu, who acted for one of the 12 people who tried to flee territory by boat, says revocation is \u2018groundless\u2019<\/p><p>A second Chinese lawyer has lost his licence after defending a Hong Kong democracy activist charged with illegally leaving the territory.<\/p><p>Ren Quanniu, who represented one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/30\/hong-kong-china-jails-1o-who-fled-by-boat-to-taiwan-for-up-to-three-years\">12 people caught attempting to flee<\/a> Hong Kong to Taiwan by boat in August 2020, received a court notice on Tuesday revoking his right to practise.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/the-fearless-hong-kong-that-made-me-an-overnight-popstar-that-city-has-vanished\">The free Hong Kong that made me an overnight popstar? That city has vanished<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/31\/leave-hong-kong-before-its-too-late-say-those-who-now-call-britain-home\">Leave Hong Kong before it\u2019s too late, say those who now call Britain home<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/second-lawyer-barred-after-defending-hong-kong-democracy-activist\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/second-lawyer-barred-after-defending-hong-kong-democracy-activist\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren Quanniu, who acted for one of the 12 people who tried to flee territory by boat, says revocation is \u2018groundless\u2019A second Chinese lawyer has lost his licence after defending a Hong Kong democracy activist charged with illegally leaving the territory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,651,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19474"}],"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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19475,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19474\/revisions\/19475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}