{"id":23638,"date":"2020-10-10T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T01:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/10\/photo-exhibition-featuring-hong-kong-protest-images-shut-down-in-macau"},"modified":"2020-10-10T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T01:23:24","slug":"photo-exhibition-featuring-hong-kong-protest-images-shut-down-in-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23638","title":{"rendered":"Photo exhibition featuring Hong Kong protest images shut down in Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Press Photo Foundations says it is unclear why exhibition closed early amid speculation of political pressure over photos <\/p>\n<p>A prestigious international press exhibition, featuring photographs of the Hong Kong protests, has been abruptly taken down in Macau, with organisers refusing to explain why, prompting speculation of political pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The World Press Photo exhibition opened on 25 September and was scheduled to run until 18 October but was closed early. Local media quoted the government-run Macau Foundation denying any political pressure, and an organiser told local radio it was due to \u201cinternal management problems\u201d, but declined to elaborate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/10\/photo-exhibition-featuring-hong-kong-protest-images-shut-down-in-macau\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Press Photo Foundations says it is unclear why exhibition closed early amid speculation of political pressure over photos A prestigious international press exhibition, featuring photographs of the Hong Kong protests, has been abruptly taken down &#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":[41,50,48,584,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-macau","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638","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=23638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638\/revisions\/23639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}