{"id":33951,"date":"2021-07-11T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T04:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/11\/growing-risks-hong-kong-pro-democracy-group-scales-down"},"modified":"2021-07-11T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T04:14:16","slug":"growing-risks-hong-kong-pro-democracy-group-scales-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33951","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Growing risks\u2019: Hong Kong pro-democracy group scales down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisation known for annual Tiananmen  vigil lets go of all paid staff and halves its steering committee<\/p>\n<p>One of Hong Kong\u2019s most established pro-democracy civic organisations has said it is letting go its paid staff and halving the size of its steering committee after Beijing stepped up its crackdown on opposition activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China is best known for its annual rally and candlelight vigil remembering those killed in the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/11\/growing-risks-hong-kong-pro-democracy-group-scales-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisation known for annual Tiananmen  vigil lets go of all paid staff and halves its steering committeeOne of Hong Kong\u2019s most established pro-democracy civic organisations has said it is letting go its paid staff and halving the size of its steerin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[559,41,50,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33952,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951\/revisions\/33952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}