{"id":12590,"date":"2020-01-02T01:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/01\/new-years-day-rally-hong-kong"},"modified":"2020-01-02T01:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:53:13","slug":"hundreds-arrested-at-huge-new-years-day-rally-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12590","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds arrested at huge New Year\u2019s Day rally in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police detain 400 and fire teargas as anti-government protests continue into 2020<\/p>\n<p>A huge New Year\u2019s Day march in Hong Kong has ended in mass arrests and street clashes as the anti-government movement \u2013 now almost in its eighth month \u2013 continued into 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Police detained about 400 people on charges including illegal assembly and possession of offensive weapons after the rally on Wednesday, which organisers said was attended by more than a million people. It was one of the largest numbers of arrests in a single day since unrest began in July.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/01\/new-years-day-rally-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police detain 400 and fire teargas as anti-government protests continue into 2020A huge New Year\u2019s Day march in Hong Kong has ended in mass arrests and street clashes as the anti-government movement \u2013 now almost in its eighth month \u2013 continued into 202&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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-12590","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\/12590","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12596,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions\/12596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}