{"id":17326,"date":"2020-04-19T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/19\/us-and-uk-condemn-arrest-of-hong-kong-democracy-activists"},"modified":"2020-04-19T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:19:41","slug":"us-and-uk-condemn-arrest-of-hong-kong-democracy-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17326","title":{"rendered":"US and UK condemn arrest of Hong Kong democracy activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arrest of 15 activists is the biggest crackdown on the pro-democracy movement since the coronavirus pandemic began<\/p>\n<p>The US and UK have criticised the arrest of 15 Hong Kong democracy activists on charges of organising and participating in anti-government protests last year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/18\/police-in-hong-kong-arrest-14-activists-amid-autonomy-warnings\">arrests on Saturday<\/a> were the biggest crackdown on the city\u2019s pro-democracy movement since the outbreak of mass protests last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/19\/us-and-uk-condemn-arrest-of-hong-kong-democracy-activists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrest of 15 activists is the biggest crackdown on the pro-democracy movement since the coronavirus pandemic beganThe US and UK have criticised the arrest of 15 Hong Kong democracy activists on charges of organising and participating in anti-govern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,48,53,86,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-law","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\/17326","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17327,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326\/revisions\/17327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}