{"id":18646,"date":"2020-05-24T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/may\/24\/hong-kong-police-teargas-thousands-rally-against-china-new-security-law-video"},"modified":"2020-05-24T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:07:12","slug":"hong-kong-police-fire-teargas-as-thousands-rally-against-chinas-new-security-law-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18646","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police fire teargas as thousands rally against China&#8217;s new security law &ndash; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong police used teargas, pepper spray and water cannon on crowds as thousands rallied against Beijing\u2019s declaration that it intends to impose national security laws on the semi-autonomous region \u2013 a highly criticised move because of the &#8216;one country, two systems&#8217; rule.<\/p>\n<p>At least 120 people were arrested, according to police, in one of the biggest gatherings in the country since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic as proposed law is to be approved next week at China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/beijing-to-impose-hong-kong-security-laws-without-delay\">Beijing to impose Hong Kong security laws &#8216;without delay&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/hong-kong-protests-unauthorised-rally-police-china-laws\">Hong Kong protests: police fire teargas as thousands rally against Beijing&#8217;s national security law<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/may\/24\/hong-kong-police-teargas-thousands-rally-against-china-new-security-law-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong police used teargas, pepper spray and water cannon on crowds as thousands rallied against Beijing\u2019s declaration that it intends to impose national security laws on the semi-autonomous region \u2013 a highly criticised move because of the &#8216;one coun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,50,1069,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/18646","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19126,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions\/19126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}