{"id":127505,"date":"2020-01-13T02:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T01:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/13\/head-of-human-rights-watch-denied-entry-to-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T02:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T01:05:23","slug":"head-of-human-rights-watch-denied-entry-to-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=127505","title":{"rendered":"Head of Human Rights Watch denied entry to Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Roth was due to launch the organisation\u2019s latest report in the Chinese-controlled cityThe global head of Human Rights Watch says he has been denied entry to Hong Kong, where he was scheduled to launch the organisation\u2019s latest world report this week.Kenneth Roth, the group\u2019s executive director, said that on Sunday he was blocked at Hong Kong airport from entering for the first time, having entered freely in the past. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2020\/jan\/13\/head-of-human-rights-watch-denied-entry-to-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\">Head of Human Rights Watch denied entry to Hong Kong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Roth was due to launch the organisation\u2019s latest report in the Chinese-controlled cityThe global head of Human Rights Watch says he has been denied entry to Hong Kong, where he was scheduled to launch the organisation\u2019s latest world report this week.Kenneth Roth, the group\u2019s executive director, said that on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}