{"id":20453,"date":"2020-07-13T00:16:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jul\/12\/hong-kong-citizens-vote-unofficial-pro-democracy-poll-video"},"modified":"2020-07-13T00:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:16:54","slug":"my-civil-right-hong-kong-citizens-vote-in-unofficial-pro-democracy-poll-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20453","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My civil right&#8217;: Hong Kong citizens vote in unofficial pro-democracy poll &ndash; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers queued to cast ballots over the weekend in an unofficial poll to select the strongest pro-democracy candidates, who will aim to seize control from pro-Beijing rivals for the first time. The vote might fall foul of the new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/china-passes-controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law\">national security law<\/a>&nbsp;imposed by Beijing, according to senior Hong Kong officials. But residents visited 250 polling stations in what the Chinese-ruled city\u2019s opposition camp says is a symbolic protest vote<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/12\/500000-hongkongers-cast-protest-vote-against-security-law\">500,000 Hongkongers cast &#8216;protest vote&#8217; against security law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/china-passes-controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law\">China passes controversial Hong Kong national security law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jul\/04\/what-chinas-new-security-law-means-for-hong-kong-video-explainer\">Is China pushing Hong Kong further away with its new security law? \u2013 video explainer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jul\/12\/hong-kong-citizens-vote-unofficial-pro-democracy-poll-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers queued to cast ballots over the weekend in an unofficial poll to select the strongest pro-democracy candidates, who will aim to seize control from pro-Beijing rivals for the first time. The vote might fall foul of t&#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20453","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\/20453","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=20453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20454,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20453\/revisions\/20454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}