{"id":27012,"date":"2011-09-20T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27012"},"modified":"2011-09-20T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:41:26","slug":"hong-kong-farmer-jailed-for-burning-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27012","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Farmer jailed for burning flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first sentence of its kind, a farmer from\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">mainland<\/a>\u00a0has been <a title=\"My Sinchew - Hong Kong jails Chinese farmer for flag-burning \" href=\"http:\/\/www.mysinchew.com\/node\/63997\" target=\"_blank\">jailed for three weeks<\/a> after setting fire to a Chinese flag in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Hong Kong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/hong-kong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong<\/a>.\u00a0Zhu Rongchang, 74, from Jiangxi province, pleaded not guilty to\u00a0flag desecration, arguing that he was exercising his right to free speech.\u00a0He burned the flag in Golden Bauhinia Square in central Hong Kong on 22 July, in a <a title=\"BBC News - Farmer jailed in Hong Kong for burning flag \" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-14984699\" target=\"_blank\">protest<\/a> against the Beijing government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first sentence of its kind, a farmer from\u00a0mainland\u00a0has been jailed for three weeks after setting fire to a Chinese flag in Hong Kong.\u00a0Zhu Rongchang, 74, from Jiangxi province, pleaded not guilty to\u00a0flag desecration, arguing that he was exercising his right to free speech.\u00a0He burned the flag in Golden Bauhinia Square in central Hong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[7364,3829,574,738,3828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27023,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012\/revisions\/27023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}