{"id":18960,"date":"2020-06-04T08:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T23:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-ban-china-national-anthem-bill-protest"},"modified":"2020-06-05T02:31:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:31:05","slug":"hong-kong-braces-as-protesters-plan-to-defy-tiananmen-vigil-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18960","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters hold banned Tiananmen vigil as anthem law is passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters defy police ban as legislation prohibits mockery of Chinese anthem<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people have defied a police ban in Hong Kong to mourn the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, after the city\u2019s legislature passed a law criminalising the mockery of China\u2019s national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Many fear this year\u2019s commemoration of the events of 4 June 1989 might be Hong Kong\u2019s last, as China has approved a plan to impose national security laws on the semi-autonomous city that would prevent and punish \u201cacts and activities\u201d that threaten national security.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-ban-china-national-anthem-bill-protest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters defy police ban as legislation prohibits mockery of Chinese anthemThousands of people have defied a police ban in Hong Kong to mourn the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, after the city\u2019s legislature passed a law criminalising the mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,50,48,80,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/18960","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960\/revisions\/18984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}