{"id":24642,"date":"2020-11-11T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/china-pro-democracy-hong-kong-lawmakers-opposition-oust"},"modified":"2020-11-12T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:46:56","slug":"hong-kong-opposition-lawmakers-all-quit-after-four-members-ousted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24642","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong opposition lawmakers all quit after four members ousted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outrage after Beijing imposes new law allowing disqualification of \u2018unpatriotic\u2019 legislators<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has plunged further into crisis as a new law imposed by Beijing allowing the disqualification of \u201cunpatriotic\u201d opposition members prompted the entire pro-democracy caucus to announce their resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Four sitting legislators were disqualified with immediate effect, with the move heralded as the end of political opposition in the city and \u201cthe death-knell of Hong Kong\u2019s democracy fight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/china-pro-democracy-hong-kong-lawmakers-opposition-oust\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outrage after Beijing imposes new law allowing disqualification of \u2018unpatriotic\u2019 legislatorsHong Kong has plunged further into crisis as a new law imposed by Beijing allowing the disqualification of \u201cunpatriotic\u201d opposition members prompted the entire &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"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-24642","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\/24642","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\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24688,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642\/revisions\/24688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}