{"id":19921,"date":"2020-07-01T10:31:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-activists-call-for-protests-over-security-law-as-city-marks-handover-anniversary"},"modified":"2020-07-01T19:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T10:36:53","slug":"hong-kong-activists-call-for-protests-over-security-law-as-city-marks-handover-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19921","title":{"rendered":"Protests greet first day of Hong Kong&#8217;s new security laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say arrests made for offences including some under national security laws<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-protests-china-security-law-carrie-lam\">Protests erupt as China brings in controversial new security law \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong police have arrested more than 180 protesters on the first day of life under the controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">national security laws imposed by Beijing<\/a>, as China confirmed that some suspects could be extradited to the mainland under the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s police force said the arrests were for offences including some under the new laws. On the 23rd anniversary of the handover from Britain to China, crowds defied a ban on protests and gathered on the streets of the busy shopping district Causeway Bay, where there were large numbers of riot police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-activists-call-for-protests-over-security-law-as-city-marks-handover-anniversary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say arrests made for offences including some under national security lawsProtests erupt as China brings in controversial new security law \u2013 liveHong Kong police have arrested more than 180 protesters on the first day of life under the controvers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[41,50,457,48,53,88,472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-japan","category-mike-pompeo"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19954,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921\/revisions\/19954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}