{"id":55703,"date":"2023-06-04T03:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/hong-kong-police-detain-eight-people-on-eve-of-tiananmen-anniversary"},"modified":"2023-06-04T03:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T18:38:07","slug":"hong-kong-police-detain-eight-people-on-eve-of-tiananmen-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55703","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police detain eight people on eve of Tiananmen anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say four arrested for \u2018seditious\u2019 acts while a further four taken away on suspicion of breaching the peace<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police detained eight people, including activists and artists, on the eve of the 34th anniversary of China\u2019s Tiananmen Square crackdown, a move that signals the city\u2019s shrinking freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a statement late Saturday that four people have been arrested for allegedly disrupting order in public spaces or carrying out acts with seditious intent. Four others were taken away for investigation on suspicion of breaching public peace. Authorities did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment late Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/hong-kong-police-detain-eight-people-on-eve-of-tiananmen-anniversary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say four arrested for \u2018seditious\u2019 acts while a further four taken away on suspicion of breaching the peaceHong Kong police detained eight people, including activists and artists, on the eve of the 34th anniversary of China\u2019s Tiananmen Square cra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3775,"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-55703","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\/55703","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\/3775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55716,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703\/revisions\/55716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}