{"id":513520,"date":"2022-02-15T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T12:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/15\/fears-of-online-censorship-in-hong-kong-as-rights-group-website-goes-down"},"modified":"2022-02-15T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T12:55:06","slug":"fears-of-online-censorship-in-hong-kong-as-rights-group-website-goes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/15\/fears-of-online-censorship-in-hong-kong-as-rights-group-website-goes-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears of online censorship in Hong Kong as rights group website goes down"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK-based Hong Kong Watch says outage could be part of wider Beijing crackdown<\/p>

The website of a UK-based advocacy group appears to have become inaccessible through some networks in Hong Kong, raising fears of mainland-style internet censorship in the Chinese territory.<\/p>

The group, Hong Kong Watch, which monitors human rights, said it worried the censorship could be a part of a wider crackdown on freedom of speech under Hong Kong\u2019s national security law, which allows the police to ask service providers to \u201cdelete\u201d information or \u201cprovide assistance\u201d on national security cases.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

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

UK-based Hong Kong Watch says outage could be part of wider Beijing crackdownThe website of a UK-based advocacy group appears to have become inaccessible through some networks in Hong Kong, raising fears of mainland-style internet censorship in the Chi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,92,190,651,6,732,640,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513520"}],"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\/4749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513521,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513520\/revisions\/513521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}