{"id":40560,"date":"2019-08-21T18:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40560"},"modified":"2019-08-21T18:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:22:30","slug":"china-says-it-has-detained-a-uk-consulate-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40560","title":{"rendered":"China says it has detained a UK consulate employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>An employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/20\/asia\/hong-kong-staffer-china-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">missing for <\/a>almost two weeks has been detained in mainland China, the country&#8217;s foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Simon Cheng, a 28-year-old who works as a trade and investment officer for the British Consulate General Hong Kong, has been put in administrative detention for 15 days, China&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Geng Shuang said Wednesday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I want to be clear: This employee is a Hong Kong citizen, not a UK citizen. So he is Chinese and this is a purely internal Chinese affair,&#8221; Geng said. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)An employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong who has been missing for almost two weeks has been detained in mainland China, the country&#8217;s foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday. Simon Cheng, a 28-year-old who works as a trade and investment officer for the British Consulate General Hong Kong, has been put in administrative&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40560","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\/40560","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=40560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}