{"id":55744,"date":"2023-06-05T02:05:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T17:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2023\/jun\/04\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-on-tiananmen-square-anniversary-video"},"modified":"2023-06-05T02:05:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T17:05:17","slug":"hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-on-tiananmen-square-anniversary-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55744","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong pro-democracy figures arrested on Tiananmen Square anniversary \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong police have detained several pro-democracy figures including the well-known activist Alexandra Wong for trying to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in China. For years, Hongkongers held candlelight vigils in Victoria Park on the anniversary, but since Beijing\u2019s imposition of the national security law on Hong Kong in 2020 to quell dissent, the vigils have been banned<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-democracy-activist-alexandra-wong-on-tiananmen-square-anniversary\">Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy figures on Tiananmen Square anniversary<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2023\/jun\/04\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-on-tiananmen-square-anniversary-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong police have detained several pro-democracy figures including the well-known activist Alexandra Wong for trying to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in China. For years, Hongkongers held candlelight vigi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/55744","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55745,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55744\/revisions\/55745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}