{"id":64660,"date":"2024-06-04T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T05:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/04\/tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-hong-kong-police-arrests-artist-sanmu-chen"},"modified":"2024-06-05T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T23:37:37","slug":"tiananmen-square-anniversary-hong-kong-police-detain-artist-who-made-sign-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64660","title":{"rendered":"Tiananmen Square anniversary: Hong Kong police detain artist who made sign in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanmu Chen appeared to write the date of massacre in the air as anniversary becomes increasingly sensitive in Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police detained an artist on Monday night after he appeared to write \u201c8964\u201d in the air with his hand, a reference to the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, hours before Tuesday\u2019s 35th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Public acknowledgment of the events of 4 June 1989, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/jun\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-remembering-tiananmen-1989-mourning-for-those-who-cannot\">Chinese soldiers shut down a weeks-long peaceful protest<\/a> with violence, killing anything from several hundred to several thousand people \u2013 is banned in mainland China and increasingly sensitive in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/04\/tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-hong-kong-police-arrests-artist-sanmu-chen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanmu Chen appeared to write the date of massacre in the air as anniversary becomes increasingly sensitive in Hong KongHong Kong police detained an artist on Monday night after he appeared to write \u201c8964\u201d in the air with his hand, a reference to the da&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64660","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64693,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64660\/revisions\/64693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}