{"id":46114,"date":"2020-11-11T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/?p=132064"},"modified":"2020-11-11T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:01:09","slug":"15-hong-kong-pro-democracy-lawmakers-quit-after-colleagues-expelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2020\/11\/11\/15-hong-kong-pro-democracy-lawmakers-quit-after-colleagues-expelled\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Lawmakers Quit After Colleagues Expelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after four Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers were expelled from the city\u2019s legislature, 15 of their colleagues followed through on a pledge and resigned en masse Wednesday. The dismissals of Alvin Yeung, Denis Kwok, Kwok Ka-ki and Kenneth Leung occurred immediately after a Chinese legislative committee ruled that Hong Kong\u2019s government could disqualify any lawmaker, believed to be a threat to national security, without going through the courts.&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This news comes via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/\"  title=\"Best source for Chinese news in English\">ChinaPulse.com, which delivers news, data, analysis, and insights on Chinese business, travel, finance, health, military, investment, and technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after four Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers were expelled from the city\u2019s legislature, 15 of their colleagues followed through on a pledge and resigned en masse Wednesday. The dismissals of Alvin Yeung, Denis Kwok, Kwok Ka-ki and Kenneth Leung o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,144,213,671,339,194],"tags":[8493,10429,3472,10323,10338,10331,2172,10328,3402],"class_list":["post-46114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china","category-china-news","category-finance","category-hong-kong","category-news-chinese-law","tag-britain","tag-carrie-lam","tag-chinese","tag-coronavirus","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-national-security","tag-pandemic","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46114"}],"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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46115,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46114\/revisions\/46115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}