{"id":21455,"date":"2020-08-07T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T23:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/07\/hong-kong-activists-charged-over-tiananmen-vigil"},"modified":"2020-08-07T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T23:32:04","slug":"hong-kong-activists-charged-over-traditional-tiananmen-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21455","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activists charged over traditional Tiananmen vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Wong and Jimmy Lai among 25 facing court for \u2018taking part in unauthorised assembly\u2019 that has been occurring for 30 years<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five Hong Kong democracy activists have been charged with taking part in a banned June candlelight vigil marking the anniversary of China\u2019s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>They included the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/our-spirit-will-never-be-crushed-hong-kong-activists-vow-to-keep-fighting-despite-new-laws\">prominent activist Joshua Wong<\/a>, the media tycoon Jimmy Lai and leaders of the Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. They were formally charged on Thursday with \u201cknowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/07\/hong-kong-activists-charged-over-tiananmen-vigil\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Wong and Jimmy Lai among 25 facing court for \u2018taking part in unauthorised assembly\u2019 that has been occurring for 30 yearsTwenty-five Hong Kong democracy activists have been charged with taking part in a banned June candlelight vigil marking the a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-21455","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\/21455","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21456,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions\/21456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}