{"id":22074,"date":"2020-08-26T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T05:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/26\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-lawmakers-arrested-over-2019-yuen-long-protests"},"modified":"2020-08-26T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:03:49","slug":"hong-kong-pro-democracy-lawmakers-arrested-over-2019-yuen-long-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22074","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers arrested over 2019 Yuen Long protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Hui and Lam Cheuk-ting held over incident in July 2019 when white-clad thugs attacked activists at train station<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have arrested pro-democracy lawmakers over involvement in protests in 2019, including one who was injured when a large group of thugs attacked protesters and civilians at the Yuen Long transport station.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests come amid a crackdown on dissent and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/26\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-lawmakers-arrested-over-2019-yuen-long-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Hui and Lam Cheuk-ting held over incident in July 2019 when white-clad thugs attacked activists at train stationHong Kong police have arrested pro-democracy lawmakers over involvement in protests in 2019, including one who was injured when a large &#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":[41,50,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22074","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=22074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22082,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22074\/revisions\/22082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}