{"id":18635,"date":"2020-05-24T14:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T05:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/hong-kong-protests-unauthorised-rally-police-china-laws"},"modified":"2020-05-24T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T05:55:42","slug":"hong-kong-protests-police-fire-teargas-as-thousands-hold-unauthorised-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18635","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: police fire teargas as thousands hold unauthorised rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armoured vehicles and water cannon deployed earlier to tackle protests amid China plans to force through security laws<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have fired teargas at crowds after thousands of people took to the streets in protest against Beijing\u2019s extraordinary declaration it would impose national security laws on the semi-autonomous region.<\/p>\n<p>The rally and march in the central business and shopping districts are unauthorised, and a brutal police response was widely feared.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/hong-kong-protests-unauthorised-rally-police-china-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armoured vehicles and water cannon deployed earlier to tackle protests amid China plans to force through security lawsHong Kong police have fired teargas at crowds after thousands of people took to the streets in protest against Beijing\u2019s extraordinary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1339,"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":[41,50,48,53,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635","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\/1339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18666,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635\/revisions\/18666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}