{"id":2159,"date":"2021-03-01T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2021-03-01T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:25:28","slug":"hong-kong-residents-safer-and-better-protected-now-city-has-national-security-law-minister-tells-un-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong residents safer and better protected now city has national security law, minister tells UN officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostHong Kong residents enjoy \u201cextra protection\u201d from violence under the national security law and their rights and freedoms remain intact, the city\u2019s security minister told UN officials on Monday.John Lee Ka-chiu defended the controversial legislation at a side event webinar at the ongoing session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, and said the Chinese government had no choice but to close the \u201cvacuum\u201d created after Hong Kong failed to pass its own legislation as required by the\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3123655\/hong-kong-residents-safer-and-better-protected-now-city-has\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostHong Kong residents enjoy \u201cextra protection\u201d from violence under the national security law and their rights and freedoms remain intact, the city\u2019s security minister told UN&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}