{"id":19815,"date":"2020-06-29T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T00:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/29\/dozens-arrested-during-hong-kong-peaceful-protest-against-national-security-laws"},"modified":"2020-06-29T09:58:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T00:58:40","slug":"dozens-arrested-during-hong-kong-peaceful-protest-against-national-security-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19815","title":{"rendered":"Dozens arrested during Hong Kong peaceful protest against national security laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silent protest ends in scuffles with police as Beijing prepares to approve controversial legislation<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have arrested at least 53 people after scuffles erupted during a relatively peaceful protest against planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/china-vote-npc-national-security-laws-hong-kong-us-protest\">national security legislation<\/a> to be implemented by the mainland Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>Armed riot police were present as a crowd of several hundred moved from Jordan to Mong Kok in the Kowloon district on Sunday, staging what was intended as a \u201csilent protest\u201d against the planned law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/29\/dozens-arrested-during-hong-kong-peaceful-protest-against-national-security-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silent protest ends in scuffles with police as Beijing prepares to approve controversial legislationHong Kong police have arrested at least 53 people after scuffles erupted during a relatively peaceful protest against planned national security legislat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/19815","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19816,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19815\/revisions\/19816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}