{"id":36605,"date":"2021-09-08T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/08\/hong-kong-police-arrest-leader-of-democracy-group-alliance"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T02:11:11","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-leader-of-democracy-group-that-organised-tiananmen-vigils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36605","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: police arrest leader of democracy group that organised Tiananmen vigils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chow Hang-tung, a barrister and organiser of the Hong Kong Alliance, wrote on Twitter \u2018Any farewell words for me?\u2019 before she was detained<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have arrested senior members of the group that organised the city\u2019s annual Tiananmen Square massacre vigil, after it was accused of foreign collusion.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> said police arrived at the offices or residents of several members early on Wednesday morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/26\/hong-kong-police-investigate-organisers-of-tiananmen-square-vigil\">The arrests come amid increasing crackdown<\/a> on political, professional and civil society groups, which the government has accused of unpatriotic conduct or national security offences.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/08\/hong-kong-police-arrest-leader-of-democracy-group-alliance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chow Hang-tung, a barrister and organiser of the Hong Kong Alliance, wrote on Twitter \u2018Any farewell words for me?\u2019 before she was detainedHong Kong police have arrested senior members of the group that organised the city\u2019s annual Tiananmen Square massa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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-36605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36605","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36633,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36605\/revisions\/36633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}