{"id":55546,"date":"2023-05-29T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/29\/hong-kong-13-go-on-trial-over-2019-storming-of-legislature-by-pro-democracy-protesters"},"modified":"2023-05-29T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:44:24","slug":"hong-kong-13-go-on-trial-over-2019-storming-of-legislature-by-pro-democracy-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55546","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: 13 go on trial over 2019 storming of legislature by pro-democracy protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven admit rioting, while another six face additional charges carrying a maximum sentence of life in prison<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong court has began the trial of 13 people over the storming and ransacking of the city\u2019s legislature in 2019, which was an unprecedented challenge to the Beijing-backed government.<\/p>\n<p>It was the most violent episode in the initial phase of the huge pro-democracy protests that shook Hong Kong that year, with millions marching and staging sit-ins for weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/29\/hong-kong-13-go-on-trial-over-2019-storming-of-legislature-by-pro-democracy-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven admit rioting, while another six face additional charges carrying a maximum sentence of life in prisonA Hong Kong court has began the trial of 13 people over the storming and ransacking of the city\u2019s legislature in 2019, which was an unprecedente&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"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-55546","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\/55546","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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55547,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55546\/revisions\/55547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}