{"id":22050,"date":"2018-11-16T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22050"},"modified":"2018-11-16T07:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:23:00","slug":"death-knell-of-press-freedom-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22050","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Death knell&#8217; of press freedom in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Every day before work, Kevin Lau stopped for breakfast at a restaurant in Sai Wan Ho, a residential area in eastern Hong Kong. It was a routine as ingrained in him as brushing his teeth, and it nearly cost him his life. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On a morning in February 2014, Lau &#8212; a senior editor at the popular, upmarket daily Ming Pao &#8212; had parked his car on a street near the restaurant when two men, wearing motorcycle helmets and gloves, rushed up to him. One slashed at Lau with a meat cleaver, knocking him to the floor, where he lay bleeding with deep wounds in his back and legs as his assailants ran off. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">With what a court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkongcaselaw.com\/tag\/criminal-case-no-328-of-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">later described<\/a> as &#8220;superhuman calm,&#8221; Lau phoned for an ambulance, and was rushed to hospital. He survived, and two men with triad links &#8212; Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah &#8212; were arrested and charged with grievous bodily harm. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Every day before work, Kevin Lau stopped for breakfast at a restaurant in Sai Wan Ho, a residential area in eastern Hong Kong. It was a routine as ingrained in him as brushing his teeth, and it nearly cost him his life. On a morning in February 2014, Lau &#8212; a senior editor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22050","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\/22050","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=22050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}