{"id":34615,"date":"2021-07-31T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T04:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/31\/hong-kong-man-arrested-for-allegedly-booing-chinese-anthem-while-watching-olympics"},"modified":"2021-07-31T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T04:48:57","slug":"hong-kong-man-arrested-for-allegedly-booing-chinese-anthem-while-watching-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34615","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong man arrested for allegedly booing Chinese anthem while watching Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man allegedly also waved colonial-era flags while watching fencer Edgar Cheung\u2019s medal ceremony at a mall<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of insulting the national anthem, after he allegedly booed the Chinese national anthem while watching an Olympic event at a mall.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old man was detained on Friday after allegedly waving colonial-era Hong Kong flags and booing, while urging others to join him in insulting the song, according to a police statement posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/31\/hong-kong-man-arrested-for-allegedly-booing-chinese-anthem-while-watching-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man allegedly also waved colonial-era flags while watching fencer Edgar Cheung\u2019s medal ceremony at a mallHong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of insulting the national anthem, after he allegedly booed the Chinese national anthem while watc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,48,342,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-olympic-games","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34616,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615\/revisions\/34616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}