{"id":26732,"date":"2007-06-29T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/?p=26732"},"modified":"2025-01-31T06:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:43:35","slug":"hong-kongs-return-to-chinese-sovereignty-ten-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/hong-kongs-return-to-chinese-sovereignty-ten-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s return to Chinese sovereignty: ten years on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty on 1 July 1997 after more than one hundred years as a British colony. The following short report looks at how certain basic human rights have fared since the handover and assesses how far the HKSAR government has taken the opportunity of a fresh start to safeguard and enhance protection of the rights and freedoms of the people of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"responsive-iframe wp-block-embed \" ><div class=\"fluid-iframe\" style=\"min-height: 750px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2025\/01\/asa190012007en.pdf\" title=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2025\/01\/asa190012007en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download report<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty on 1 July 1997 after more than one hundred years as a British colony. The following short report looks at how certain basic human rights have fared since the handover and assesses how far the HKSAR government has taken the opportunity of a fresh start to safeguard and enhance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image-id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image-id":0,"recipients":"","recipients_refresh":"","recipients_refreshed":"","_hero_title":"","_hero_content":"","_hero_cta_text":"","_hero_cta_link":"","_hero_alignment":"","_hero_background":"","_hero_size":"","_hero_show":"","_hero_type":"","_hero_embed":"","_hero_video_id":0,"_hero_hide_image_caption":true,"_hero_hide_image_copyright":false,"_nav_style":"","_disable_share_icons":false,"_disable_sidebar":false,"_display_author_info":false,"_hide_featured_image":false,"_hide_featured_image_caption":true,"_maximize_post_content":false,"_reduce_content_width":false,"_sidebar_id":0,"_stretch_thumbnail":false,"byline_context":"","byline_entity":"","byline_is_author":false,"disable_related_content":false,"download_id":0,"download_text":"","show_published_date":true,"show_updated_date":true,"term_slider":"","amnesty_index_number":"","document_ref":"","amnesty_updated":"","amnesty_umbraco_data":"","footnotes":""},"category":[1705],"location":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-26732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-reports"],"datePosted":"June 29, 2007","mlpRelationships":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=26732"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=26732"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=26732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}