{"id":6788,"date":"2019-08-12T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T06:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/hong-kong-protests-brutal-undercover-police-tactics-spark-outcry"},"modified":"2019-08-12T15:06:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T06:06:32","slug":"hong-kong-protests-brutal-undercover-police-tactics-spark-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6788","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: brutal undercover police tactics spark outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of helmeted protesters suddenly making arrests causes concern after weekend of intense clashes<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups and democracy activists have accused police in Hong Kong of using excessive force after teargas was fired into an enclosed subway station and officers posed as protesters before making arrests during an intense weekend of clashes.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/11\/hong-kong-protesters-play-cat-and-mouse-game-with-police-on-subway\">Hong Kong hit by more violence as protests enter 10th week<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/hong-kong-protests-brutal-undercover-police-tactics-spark-outcry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of helmeted protesters suddenly making arrests causes concern after weekend of intense clashesRights groups and democracy activists have accused police in Hong Kong of using excessive force after teargas was fired into an enclosed subway statio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"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":[41,50,48,54,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-press-freedom","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\/6788","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6921,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions\/6921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}