{"id":18453,"date":"2020-05-19T17:53:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T08:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/19\/hong-kong-blocks-tiananmen-square-vigil-with-gathering-ban"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T08:53:48","slug":"hong-kong-blocks-tiananmen-square-vigil-with-gathering-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18453","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong blocks Tiananmen Square vigil with gathering ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions were due to end but Hong Kong extends social distancing measures for 14 days <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong has in effect banned an annual vigil for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/tiananmen-square-protests-1989\">Tiananmen Square<\/a> massacre by extending its physical distancing measures for another 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>After two consecutive days without local transmissions of Covid-19, the city\u2019s authorities announced some restrictions would ease, but those limiting gatherings to a maximum of eight would be extended for another 14 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/19\/hong-kong-blocks-tiananmen-square-vigil-with-gathering-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions were due to end but Hong Kong extends social distancing measures for 14 days Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has in effect banned an annual vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre by extending its phys&#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":[41,50,1069,48,914,431,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-uk-news","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\/18453","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=18453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18454,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18453\/revisions\/18454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}