{"id":9866,"date":"2021-01-18T16:01:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/article\/3118247\/former-top-prosecutor-hong-kong-calls-uk-foreign-minister-apologise"},"modified":"2021-01-18T16:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:01:30","slug":"former-top-prosecutor-in-hong-kong-calls-on-uk-foreign-minister-to-apologise-to-barrister-trying-opposition-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/former-top-prosecutor-in-hong-kong-calls-on-uk-foreign-minister-to-apologise-to-barrister-trying-opposition-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Former top prosecutor in Hong Kong calls on UK foreign minister to apologise to barrister trying opposition figures"},"content":{"rendered":"British foreign secretary Dominic Raab owed a prominent Queen\u2019s Counsel an apology for calling him \u201cmercenary\u201d and claiming he was giving Beijing a \u201cPR coup\u201d by trying nine Hong Kong opposition figures, the city\u2019s former top prosecutor said on Monday.Former director of public prosecutions Grenville Cross believed Raab had accused David Perry QC of acting at the behest of Beijing without knowing the trial was unrelated to the national security law.Raab made his comments after the High Court\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/article\/3118247\/former-top-prosecutor-hong-kong-calls-uk-foreign-minister-apologise\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British foreign secretary Dominic Raab owed a prominent Queen\u2019s Counsel an apology for calling him \u201cmercenary\u201d and claiming he was giving Beijing a \u201cPR coup\u201d by trying nine Hong Kong opposition figures, the city\u2019s former top prosecutor said on Monday.F&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"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\/9866"}],"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\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9892,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866\/revisions\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}