{"id":5197,"date":"2019-07-31T17:39:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T08:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/31\/fresh-unrest-in-hong-kong-after-44-protesters-charged-with-rioting"},"modified":"2019-07-31T17:39:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T08:39:46","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-charged-with-rioting-as-violence-flares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5197","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters charged with rioting as violence flares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters gather outside court where accused appeared, chanting \u2018liberate Hong Kong\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>More than 20 people have appeared in court in Hong Kong charged with rioting, as hundreds of supporters gathered outside the building chanting \u201crevolution of our time\u201d and \u201cliberate Hong Kong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The hearings marked the first time authorities have resorted to the serious charges of rioting since the beginning of a wave of unrest that has plunged the former British colony into its biggest political crisis since its return to Chinese rule in 1997.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/31\/fresh-unrest-in-hong-kong-after-44-protesters-charged-with-rioting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters gather outside court where accused appeared, chanting \u2018liberate Hong Kong\u2019 More than 20 people have appeared in court in Hong Kong charged with rioting, as hundreds of supporters gathered outside the building chanting \u201crevolution of our time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197","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\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}