{"id":22492,"date":"2020-09-06T23:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/06\/hong-kong-protesters-oppose-election-delay-arrests"},"modified":"2020-09-06T23:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:51:10","slug":"almost-300-arrests-as-hong-kong-protesters-oppose-election-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22492","title":{"rendered":"Almost 300 arrests as Hong Kong protesters oppose election delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police fire pepper pellets in one of largest gatherings since national security law imposed<\/p>\n<p>On what was supposed to have been Hong Kong\u2019s election day, hundreds of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets on Sunday, where they encountered a heavy presence from police, who fired pepper pellets and arrested almost 300 people.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the largest gatherings of protesters since China\u2019s implementation of a sweeping set of anti-sedition laws that a coalition of United Nations expert groups has said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/hong-kong-security-law-may-break-international-laws-china-human-rights-un\">risks breaching multiple international laws<\/a> and human rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/06\/hong-kong-protesters-oppose-election-delay-arrests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police fire pepper pellets in one of largest gatherings since national security law imposedOn what was supposed to have been Hong Kong\u2019s election day, hundreds of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets on Sunday, where they encountered a heavy pr&#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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/22492","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=22492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22493,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22492\/revisions\/22493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}