{"id":11121,"date":"2019-11-15T03:57:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/14\/second-death-in-hong-kong-protests-as-xi-demands-end-to-violence"},"modified":"2019-11-15T03:57:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:57:03","slug":"second-death-in-hong-kong-protests-as-xi-jinping-demands-end-to-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11121","title":{"rendered":"Second death in Hong Kong protests as Xi Jinping demands end to violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victim said to have been hit by brick as protesters and pro-Beijing residents clashed<\/p>\n<p>A second man has died during the protests in Hong Kong, hours after China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, issued his most direct warning yet to the city, saying it urgently needed to \u201cend violence and restore order\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A 70-year-old cleaner who is thought to have been hit by a brick during a clash between protesters and pro-Beijing residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3037622\/hong-kong-protests-tear-gas-fired-city-begins-fourth\">died late on Thursday<\/a>, hospital officials said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/14\/second-death-in-hong-kong-protests-as-xi-demands-end-to-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victim said to have been hit by brick as protesters and pro-Beijing residents clashedA second man has died during the protests in Hong Kong, hours after China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, issued his most direct warning yet to the city, saying it urgently n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions\/11157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}