{"id":37347,"date":"2021-09-26T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/26\/hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-group-disbands-amid-crackdown-on-dissent"},"modified":"2021-09-26T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T01:30:15","slug":"hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-group-disbands-amid-crackdown-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37347","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil group disbands amid crackdown on dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent pro-democracy group Hong Kong Alliance voted to disband after many of its leaders were arrested <\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong pro-democracy group that organised three decades of vigils commemorating the victims of Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square massacre has voted to disband in the face of China\u2019s sweeping clampdown on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong Alliance was one of the most prominent symbols of the city\u2019s former political plurality, and its dissolution on Saturday is the latest illustration of how quickly China is remoulding the business hub in its own authoritarian image.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/26\/hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-group-disbands-amid-crackdown-on-dissent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent pro-democracy group Hong Kong Alliance voted to disband after many of its leaders were arrested The Hong Kong pro-democracy group that organised three decades of vigils commemorating the victims of Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square massacre has vote&#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":[41,50,48,80,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/37347","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=37347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37347\/revisions\/37348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}