{"id":22063,"date":"2012-11-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/11\/20121121_185552.shtml"},"modified":"2012-11-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T04:00:00","slug":"4-jailed-for-vote-rigging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/11\/21\/4-jailed-for-vote-rigging\/","title":{"rendered":"4 jailed for vote-rigging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/department_logo\/ICAC.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A couple and two other people have been jailed for up to three months by Kowloon City Magistracy for vote-rigging in the 2011 District Council Election.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On July 16 last year they submitted to the Registration &amp; Electoral Office their applications for registration as electors for the King's Park Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In their applications they said a flat in Mong Kok was their only or principal residential address.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The occupants residing at the address confirmed they did not know the defendants, and that the defendants had never resided there.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, three people charged in the same case who pleaded guilty to a similar voting offence, were sentenced to two-months' jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple and two other people have been jailed for up to three months by Kowloon City Magistracy for vote-rigging in the 2011 District Council Election.\u00a0On July 16 last year they submitted to the Registration &amp; Electoral Office their applications &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}