{"id":104467,"date":"2016-11-08T08:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=104467"},"modified":"2016-11-08T08:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:48:43","slug":"damocles-sword-also-shield-separatists-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/damocles-sword-also-shield-separatists-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Damocles sword&#8217; also shield against separatists, or kind of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung \u2013<\/p>\n<p>When the National People\u2019s Congress Standing Committee interpreted the Basic Law to overturn a Court of Final Appeal on a right of abode case in 1999, Ronny Tong Ka-wah, who chaired the Bar Association then, warned a \u201cDamocles sword\u201d was hanging over the city\u2019s judiciary after the Government refused to ask Beijing not to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, China\u2019s top legislature exercised their power to interpret the city\u2019s mini-constitution thrice under different situations. It did the fifth time on Monday. This time, the \u201csword of Damocles\u201d was hanging over the heads of a bigger crowd. Anyone who advocate independence, self-determination or branded as \u201chidden pro-independence activists\u201d could be in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QNoOqL0kdE\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/11\/07\/damocles-sword-also-shield-against-separatists-or-kind-of\/\">&#8216;Damocles sword&#8217; also shield against separatists, or kind of<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201c\u2018Damocles sword\u2019 also shield against separatists, or kind of\u201d \u2014 Voice of Hong Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/11\/07\/damocles-sword-also-shield-against-separatists-or-kind-of\/embed\/#?secret=QNoOqL0kdE\" data-secret=\"QNoOqL0kdE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung \u2013 When the National People\u2019s Congress Standing Committee interpreted the Basic Law to overturn a Court of Final Appeal on a right of abode case in 1999, Ronny Tong Ka-wah, who chaired the Bar Association then, warned a \u201cDamocles sword\u201d was hanging over the city\u2019s judiciary after the Government refused to ask&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":104470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17613,8,6855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-yeung","category-column","category-sticky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cy1108-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-raX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}