{"id":18245,"date":"2020-05-15T18:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T09:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/15\/hong-kong-police-watchdog-clears-force-protest-response"},"modified":"2020-05-15T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T09:40:46","slug":"anger-as-hong-kong-police-watchdog-clears-force-over-protest-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18245","title":{"rendered":"Anger as Hong Kong police watchdog clears force over protest response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report defends crackdown despite international outrage and allegations of brutality<\/p>\n<p>Activists and legal experts have condemned a report by Hong Kong\u2019s police watchdog, which found the force\u2019s response to the city\u2019s protests to be justified and within regulations, despite international condemnation of the crackdowns, which included water cannon, tear gas, pepper spray and excessive force.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Police Complaints Council released a report on Friday which said the protests were the \u201cmost challenging public order situation in a generation\u201d, and allegations of brutality should not be used as a political weapon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/15\/hong-kong-police-watchdog-clears-force-protest-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report defends crackdown despite international outrage and allegations of brutalityActivists and legal experts have condemned a report by Hong Kong\u2019s police watchdog, which found the force\u2019s response to the city\u2019s protests to be justified and within re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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-18245","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\/18245","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18247,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245\/revisions\/18247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}