{"id":29106,"date":"2021-03-01T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/01\/hong-kong-court-protests-democracy-activists-national-security-law"},"modified":"2021-03-01T23:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:46:01","slug":"hong-kong-court-swamped-by-protests-as-47-pro-democracy-figures-due-to-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29106","title":{"rendered":"Protesters swamp Hong Kong court after pro-democracy figures charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British consulate general among crowds outside court voicing their opposition to latest crackdown<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/01\/endure-everyone-hong-kong-democracy-figures-messages-detention\">\u2018Endure, everyone\u2019: final messages from Hong Kong democracy figures before detention<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About 1,000 people have gathered outside a Hong Kong court where 47 pro-democracy candidates, campaigners and activists faced charges of conspiracy to commit subversion under the national security law.<\/p>\n<p>The group is accused of organising and participating in an unofficial primary poll in July last year aimed at selecting the strongest candidates for a legislative council election that the government later postponed, citing the coronavirus. Authorities said the informal poll was part of a plan to \u201coverthrow\u201d the government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/01\/hong-kong-court-protests-democracy-activists-national-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British consulate general among crowds outside court voicing their opposition to latest crackdown\u2018Endure, everyone\u2019: final messages from Hong Kong democracy figures before detention About 1,000 people have gathered outside a Hong Kong court where 47 pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/29106","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29112,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29106\/revisions\/29112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}