{"id":837,"date":"2022-05-11T11:51:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:25:59","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-democracy-catholic-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hong Kong Police Arrest Pro-Democracy Catholic Bishop&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20278807c68bb200d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cardinal joseph zen\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20278807c68bb200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20278807c68bb200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Cardinal joseph zen\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-democracy-catholic-bishop\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=27677087\">Hong Kong police arrested on Tuesday night a retired Catholic bishop and four other individuals who allegedly funneled financial aid to pro-democracy protestors on charges of \u201ccollusion with foreign forces.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A legal source confirmed to <a data-testid=\"standard-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/hong-kong-police-arrest-catholic-cardinal-alleged-collusion-with-foreign-forces-2022-05-11\/\">Reuters<\/a> that Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, had been detained under this pretense. He is in custody at the Chai Wan police station, a police sergeant told Reuters. The officer said Zen is being questioned for his involvement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The other four who were arrested included&#0160;senior barrister Margaret Ng, activist and pop singer Denise Ho, former lawmaker Cyd Ho, and former academic Hui Po-keung, Reuters noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Zen gained notoriety for speaking out against the Chinese Communist Party regime and its repression of <a data-testid=\"dynamic-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2021\/08\/02\/the-fate-of-hong-kong\/\">pro-democracy dissenters in Hong Kong<\/a> as well as Catholics in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong police arrested on Tuesday night a retired Catholic bishop and four other individuals who allegedly funneled financial aid to pro-democracy protestors on charges of \u201ccollusion with foreign forces.\u201d A legal source confirmed to Reuters that Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, had been detained under this pretense. He is in custody at the Chai Wan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}