{"id":11196,"date":"2019-11-17T21:57:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T12:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/17\/fire-rocks-and-teargas-fly-in-day-of-battle-at-hong-kong-university"},"modified":"2019-11-18T08:14:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T23:14:32","slug":"fire-rocks-and-teargas-fly-in-day-of-battle-at-hong-kong-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11196","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong riot police carry out dawn raid on university after battle with protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police earlier threatened to use live rounds on \u2018rioters\u2019 who used lethal weapons such as molotov cocktails against them<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/nov\/18\/hong-kong-protest-police-storm-polytechnic-university-after-standoff-with-protesters-live\">Hong Kong protest latest updates: riot police storm Polytechnic University after standoff with protesters \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police attempted to storm Hong Kong\u2019s Polytechnic University after a daylong battle with protesters which saw levels of violence between the two sides reach new heights on Sunday and officials threatened to use live rounds.<\/p>\n<p>About 200 demonstrators remained inside the building at dawn on Monday morning when police in riot gear moved in. As they advanced, protesters set fire to one of the entrances to the university and explosions could be heard. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/17\/fire-rocks-and-teargas-fly-in-day-of-battle-at-hong-kong-university\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police earlier threatened to use live rounds on \u2018rioters\u2019 who used lethal weapons such as molotov cocktails against themHong Kong protest latest updates: riot police storm Polytechnic University after standoff with protesters \u2013 livePolice attempted to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196","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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11244,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}