{"id":45114,"date":"2022-06-03T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T03:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/hong-kong-police-warn-tiananmen-anniversary-gatherings-will-break-the-law"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T03:30:38","slug":"hong-kong-police-warn-tiananmen-anniversary-gatherings-will-break-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45114","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police warn Tiananmen anniversary gatherings will break the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong has commemorated 1989 crackdown for decades, but national security law imposed in 2020 has put a stop to annual vigils<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have warned that people risk breaking the law if they gather on Saturday to commemorate China\u2019s Tiananmen Square crackdown \u2013 particularly in the city\u2019s Victoria Park, the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2021\/jun\/02\/hong-kong-4-june-tiananmen-vigil-over-the-years-in-pictures\">a once-annual candlelit vigil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion of the 1989 clampdown, when the government set troops and tanks on peaceful protesters, is all but forbidden in mainland China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/hong-kong-police-warn-tiananmen-anniversary-gatherings-will-break-the-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong has commemorated 1989 crackdown for decades, but national security law imposed in 2020 has put a stop to annual vigilsHong Kong police have warned that people risk breaking the law if they gather on Saturday to commemorate China\u2019s Tiananmen S&#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":[41,50,48,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/45114","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=45114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45126,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45114\/revisions\/45126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}