{"id":20520,"date":"2020-07-14T14:13:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T05:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/hong-kong-primaries-china-declares-pro-democracy-polls-illegal"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T05:13:17","slug":"hong-kong-primaries-china-declares-pro-democracy-polls-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20520","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong primaries: China declares pro-democracy polls &#8216;illegal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City\u2019s leader announces investigation into vote that has been seen as an act of opposition to new security laws <\/p>\n<p>China has declared primaries held by Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democratic parties on the weekend \u201cillegal\u201d and the city\u2019s leader has announced an investigation, saying that the candidates\u2019 intention to vote against government legislation could break national security laws.<\/p>\n<p>The primary polls, while not a formal part of Hong Kong\u2019s election process, drew an estimated 600,000 people out to vote for democracy candidates ahead of the legislative council elections scheduled for September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/hong-kong-primaries-china-declares-pro-democracy-polls-illegal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City\u2019s leader announces investigation into vote that has been seen as an act of opposition to new security laws China has declared primaries held by Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democratic parties on the weekend \u201cillegal\u201d and the city\u2019s leader has announced an inve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,555,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","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\/20520","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20521,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions\/20521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}