{"id":6495,"date":"2021-04-17T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2021-04-17T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:24:07","slug":"us-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-condemns-sentencing-of-hong-kong-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6495","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemns sentencing of Hong Kong activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced Hong Kong\u2019s \u201cpolitically-motivated\u201d decision to sentence publishing tycoon\u00a0Jimmy Lai\u00a0Chee-ying and multiple opposition lawmakers to prison for their roles in the 2019 mass protests that rocked the city for a year.\u201cBeijing and Hong Kong authorities are targeting Hong Kongers for doing nothing more than exercising protected rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of speech,\u201d Blinken said in a statement on\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3129986\/us-secretary-state-antony-blinken-condemns-sentencing-hong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced Hong Kong\u2019s \u201cpolitically-motivated\u201d decision to sentence publishing tycoon\u00a0Jimmy Lai\u00a0Chee-ying and multiple opposition lawmakers to prison for their roles in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6496,"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\/6495"}],"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=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}