{"id":642556,"date":"2022-05-07T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/07\/security-chief-who-led-pro-democracy-crackdown-set-to-be-hong-kongs-new-leader"},"modified":"2022-05-07T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T14:00:02","slug":"security-chief-who-led-pro-democracy-crackdown-set-to-be-hong-kongs-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/07\/security-chief-who-led-pro-democracy-crackdown-set-to-be-hong-kongs-new-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Security chief who led pro-democracy crackdown set to be Hong Kong\u2019s new leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lee is the only candidate in the running to succeed Carrie Lam as chief executive<\/p><p>At the height of Hong Kong\u2019s protests in the summer of 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legco.gov.hk\/yr18-19\/english\/counmtg\/hansard\/cm20190619-translate-e.pdf\" title=\"\">angry pro-democracy legislators shouted <\/a>in the Chinese territory\u2019s legislative council: \u201cdown with John Lee!\u201d, as the veteran security chief defended his force\u2019s treatment of the protesters and journalists.<\/p><p>\u201cI hope people will understand the chaotic situation and the pressure faced by each and every one at the scene on that day,\u201d Lee said, unapologetically. \u201cI hope members of the public will not vent their dissatisfaction of the government on police officers, because they are only discharging their duties.\u201d<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/07\/security-chief-who-led-pro-democracy-crackdown-set-to-be-hong-kongs-new-leader\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/07\/security-chief-who-led-pro-democracy-crackdown-set-to-be-hong-kongs-new-leader\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lee is the only candidate in the running to succeed Carrie Lam as chief executiveAt the height of Hong Kong\u2019s protests in the summer of 2019, angry pro-democracy legislators shouted in the Chinese territory\u2019s legislative council: \u201cdown with John L&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,651,6,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642556"}],"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=642556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642557,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642556\/revisions\/642557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}