{"id":9172,"date":"2021-01-16T13:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T13:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118030\/hong-kong-protests-five-fugitives-who-fled-taiwan"},"modified":"2021-01-16T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T13:17:05","slug":"hong-kong-protests-five-fugitives-who-fled-to-taiwan-seeking-asylum-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/hong-kong-protests-five-fugitives-who-fled-to-taiwan-seeking-asylum-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: five fugitives who fled to Taiwan \u2018seeking asylum in the United States\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"Five Hong Kong fugitives who reportedly fled to Taiwan and were intercepted by the self-ruled island\u2019s coastguard in July last year are now seeking asylum in the United States, according to an activist group.Without naming the individuals, US-based Samuel Chu of the Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC) said in a statement the five had their hearts \u201cfilled with anxiety and all kinds of emotions\u201d from the moment they left Hong Kong.Chu said the fugitives were all aged below 30. They faced arrest or\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\/3118030\/hong-kong-protests-five-fugitives-who-fled-taiwan\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Hong Kong fugitives who reportedly fled to Taiwan and were intercepted by the self-ruled island\u2019s coastguard in July last year are now seeking asylum in the United States, according to an activist group.Without naming the individuals, US-based Sam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":892,"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\/9172"}],"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\/892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9173,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions\/9173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}