{"id":27783,"date":"2021-02-04T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-movement-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-by-us-lawmakers"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:50:29","slug":"hong-kong-pro-democracy-movement-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-by-us-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27783","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong pro-democracy movement nominated for Nobel peace prize by US lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bipartisan nomination praises protesters\u2019 \u2018bravery and determination that have inspired the world\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>US lawmakers have nominated Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement for the Nobel peace prize, calling the campaigners a global inspiration in the face of a crackdown by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Nobel committee released on Wednesday, nine lawmakers across party lines cited the estimate that more than two million people took to the streets on 16 June 2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-movement-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-by-us-lawmakers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bipartisan nomination praises protesters\u2019 \u2018bravery and determination that have inspired the world\u2019 US lawmakers have nominated Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement for the Nobel peace prize, calling the campaigners a global inspiration in the face of a c&#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":[50,48,1655,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-nobel-peace-prize","category-us-news","category-us-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783","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=27783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27784,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783\/revisions\/27784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}