{"id":21716,"date":"2018-11-09T05:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21716"},"modified":"2018-11-09T05:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:23:01","slug":"hong-kong-denies-entry-to-uk-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21716","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong denies entry to UK journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong  (CNN)<\/cite>A senior British journalist denied a work visa by the Hong Kong authorities was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/07\/asia\/hong-kong-ft-mallet-visa-intl\/index.html\">barred from entering <\/a>the city as a tourist Thursday, in the same week a talk by exiled Chinese dissident writer Ma Jian was canceled, raising new fears over press freedoms in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Financial Times Asia editor Victor Mallet was turned away at the border after several hours of questioning by immigration officers, the newspaper said, weeks after his working visa renewal was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/05\/asia\/hong-kong-visa-refusal-fcc-intl\/index.html\">controversially refused<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Under current immigration rules, British nationals are typically allowed into Hong Kong without a visa, after which they are permitted to stay for 180 days. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)A senior British journalist denied a work visa by the Hong Kong authorities was barred from entering the city as a tourist Thursday, in the same week a talk by exiled Chinese dissident writer Ma Jian was canceled, raising new fears over press freedoms in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.Financial Times Asia editor Victor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}