{"id":64762,"date":"2024-06-07T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T05:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/07\/three-arrested-in-hong-kong-for-insulting-chinese-anthem-at-world-cup-qualifier"},"modified":"2024-06-07T14:52:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T05:52:24","slug":"three-arrested-in-hong-kong-for-insulting-chinese-anthem-at-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64762","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested in Hong Kong for \u2018insulting\u2019 Chinese anthem at World Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say spectators \u2018turned their backs toward the pitch and did not stand for the playing of the national anthem\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Three people have been arrested for turning their backs and remaining seated when China\u2019s national anthem was played prior to Hong Kong\u2019s home World Cup qualifier against Iran, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>Football spectators in Hong Kong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/09\/defiant-hong-kong-football-fans-boo-china-national-anthem\">used to boo the Chinese anthem<\/a> as a show of political discontent, but the government banned the practice in 2020 as part of a wider crackdown after huge democracy protests in the city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/07\/three-arrested-in-hong-kong-for-insulting-chinese-anthem-at-world-cup-qualifier\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say spectators \u2018turned their backs toward the pitch and did not stand for the playing of the national anthem\u2019Three people have been arrested for turning their backs and remaining seated when China\u2019s national anthem was played prior to Hong Kong\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,627,48,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-football","category-hong-kong","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64762","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64763,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64762\/revisions\/64763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}