{"id":21220,"date":"2020-07-31T22:04:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/concern-as-hong-kong-postpones-elections-for-one-year-citing-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-07-31T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:04:44","slug":"concern-as-hong-kong-postpones-elections-for-a-year-citing-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21220","title":{"rendered":"Concern as Hong Kong postpones elections for a year, citing Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision is \u2018an assault on fundamental freedoms\u2019, says Hong Kong Watch, as democracy deteriorates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Hong Kong government has postponed its upcoming elections for one year, citing the growing coronavirus outbreak in the territory but sparking immediate accusations that the pandemic was being used as a pretext to suppress democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, announced on Friday she had invoked colonial-era<strong> <\/strong>emergency regulations to delay the 6 September vote to 5 September 2021, saying it was the \u201chardest decision I have made in the past seven months\u201d,<strong> <\/strong>but had the full support of the Chinese central government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/concern-as-hong-kong-postpones-elections-for-one-year-citing-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision is \u2018an assault on fundamental freedoms\u2019, says Hong Kong Watch, as democracy deterioratesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Hong Kong government has postponed its upcoming elections for one year, citing the grow&#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":[41,555,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/21220","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=21220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21221,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220\/revisions\/21221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}