{"id":4559,"date":"2019-07-25T18:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T09:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/25\/hong-kong-protesters-defy-police-ban-gang-attack"},"modified":"2019-07-25T18:44:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T09:44:42","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-to-defy-police-ban-on-march-after-gang-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4559","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters to defy police ban on march after gang attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstration \u2018must go on\u2019 in area where commuters were beaten with iron rods <\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators in Hong Kong have vowed to march despite a police ban to condemn an attack by suspected gangs on commuters earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, police rejected an application by protesters to hold a rally in Yuen Long, in north-west Hong Kong, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/22\/where-were-the-police-hong-kong-outcry-after-masked-thugs-launch-attack\">dozens of masked men beat commuters on Sunday<\/a> with rattan and iron rods.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/25\/hong-kong-protesters-defy-police-ban-gang-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstration \u2018must go on\u2019 in area where commuters were beaten with iron rods Demonstrators in Hong Kong have vowed to march despite a police ban to condemn an attack by suspected gangs on commuters earlier this week.On Thursday, police rejected an app&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"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":[41,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/4559","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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}