{"id":6447,"date":"2019-08-06T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2019\/aug\/06\/hong-kong-protesters-hold-first-civil-press-conference-video"},"modified":"2019-08-06T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:30:03","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-hold-first-civil-press-conference-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6447","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters hold &#8216;first civil press conference&#8217; &ndash; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masked Hongkongers have staged their first press conference, calling for the return of power to the people. &#8216;We are Hong Kong citizens from different positions from the movement,&#8217; one masked man said. &#8216;This is the first civil press conference of Hong Kong \u2013 by the people, for the people.&#8217; The city&#8217;s chief executive, Carrie Lam, had announced this week that the police force would be holding daily press conferences. In response, a group of protesters have &#8216;initiated a citizens&#8217; press conference to bring the people\u2019s unheard voice to the public&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/06\/masked-hong-kongers-democracy-china-thugs\">Masked Hong Kongers dismiss government warnings amid fresh fears of China thugs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2019\/aug\/06\/hong-kong-protesters-hold-first-civil-press-conference-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masked Hongkongers have staged their first press conference, calling for the return of power to the people. &#8216;We are Hong Kong citizens from different positions from the movement,&#8217; one masked man said. &#8216;This is the first civil press conference of Hong K&#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":[559,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/6447","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=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}