{"id":8901,"date":"2021-01-15T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T11:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117949\/hong-kong-police-arrest-two-accused-helping-suspects"},"modified":"2021-01-15T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T11:49:53","slug":"hong-kong-protests-two-arrested-over-helping-suspects-flee-city-in-horrific-2019-case-where-man-was-set-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/hong-kong-protests-two-arrested-over-helping-suspects-flee-city-in-horrific-2019-case-where-man-was-set-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: two arrested over helping suspects flee city in horrific 2019 case where man was set on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"A Japanese language teacher and a part-time cabby were detained on Thursday for allegedly helping two suspects flee Hong Kong to escape arrest in connection with the case of a construction worker who was set ablaze in one of the most horrific acts of violence to emerge from 2019\u2019s anti-government protests.The duo were accused of buying air tickets for the two suspects, aged 17 and 25, who flew out of the city shortly after the November 11, 2019 incident, according to acting police\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117949\/hong-kong-police-arrest-two-accused-helping-suspects\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese language teacher and a part-time cabby were detained on Thursday for allegedly helping two suspects flee Hong Kong to escape arrest in connection with the case of a construction worker who was set ablaze in one of the most horrific acts of v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":773,"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\/8901"}],"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\/773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8948,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}