{"id":19930,"date":"2020-07-01T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-protests-china-security-law-carrie-lam"},"modified":"2020-07-02T01:21:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:21:48","slug":"hong-kong-protests-erupt-as-china-brings-in-controversial-new-security-law-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19930","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: nearly 400 arrested as security law comes in; UK opens pathway to citizenship &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police use water cannon and pepper spray as people take to the streets to protest new security law introduced by China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-protesters-arrested-as-security-law-comes-into-effect\">Hundreds arrested on first day of new laws<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/jul\/01\/china-is-breaking-hong-kong-treaty-with-uk-says-boris-johnson\">Boris Johnson says China breaking treaty with UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kongs-security-laws-usher-in-new-era-of-chinese-control\">Analysis: security laws usher in new era of control<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/how-are-you-being-affected-by-protests-in-hong-kong\">How are you affected by protests in Hong Kong?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-07-01T16:17:24.533Z\">5.17pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all from the liveblog today. You can read the full story here:<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-protesters-arrested-as-security-law-comes-into-effect\">Hong Kong: hundreds arrested as security law comes into effect<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kongs-security-laws-usher-in-new-era-of-chinese-control\">Hong Kong&#8217;s security laws usher in new era of Chinese control<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-07-01T15:14:26.101Z\">4.14pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, Hong Kong police confirmed that they arrested a total of 370 people on various charges, including unlawful assembly, possession of weapons and violating the new security law.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 10 people were arrested under the law, including a man with a Hong Kong independence flag and a woman holding a sign displaying the British flag and calling for Hong Kong\u2019s independence all violations of the law that took effect Tuesday night. Others were detained for possessing items advocating independence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-protests-china-security-law-carrie-lam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police use water cannon and pepper spray as people take to the streets to protest new security law introduced by ChinaHundreds arrested on first day of new lawsBoris Johnson says China breaking treaty with UKAnalysis: security laws usher in new era of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"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":[41,555,50,457,48,53,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","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\/19930","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions\/19963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}