{"id":18991,"date":"2020-06-05T05:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jun\/04\/thousands-in-hong-kong-defy-ban-to-hold-tiananmen-square-vigil-video"},"modified":"2020-06-05T05:27:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:27:35","slug":"thousands-in-hong-kong-defy-ban-to-hold-tiananmen-square-vigil-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18991","title":{"rendered":"Thousands in Hong Kong defy ban to hold Tiananmen Square vigil\u00a0\u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in Hong Kong have defied a police ban to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown with a vigil, as the city\u2019s legislature passed a law&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/no-cards-left-hong-kong-residents-sell-up-and-search-for-way-out-as-china-cements-grip\">criminalising the mocking of China\u2019s national anthem<\/a>. Many fear this year\u2019s commemoration might be Hong Kong\u2019s last, as the proposed imposition of Chinese laws on the special administrative region would prevent and punish activities that threaten national security.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-ban-china-national-anthem-bill-protest\">Hong Kong protesters hold banned Tiananmen vigil as anthem law is passed<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jun\/04\/thousands-in-hong-kong-defy-ban-to-hold-tiananmen-square-vigil-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in Hong Kong have defied a police ban to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown with a vigil, as the city\u2019s legislature passed a law&nbsp;criminalising the mocking of China\u2019s national anthem. Many fear this year\u2019s commem&#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":[41,50,48,80,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18991","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\/18991","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=18991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18992,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18991\/revisions\/18992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}