{"id":7254,"date":"2019-08-16T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/an-eye-for-an-eye-hong-kong-protests-get-figurehead-in-woman-injured-by-police"},"modified":"2019-08-16T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:25:30","slug":"an-eye-for-an-eye-hong-kong-protests-get-figurehead-in-woman-injured-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7254","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;An eye for an eye&#8217;: Hong Kong protests get figurehead in woman injured by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman who may lose an eye after being shot with a beanbag round has galvanised protesters<\/p>\n<p>Two months into Hong Kong\u2019s political crisis, the faceless, leaderless protest movement has found a figurehead: a young woman who may be blind in one eye because of the police.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, amid clashes between police and protesters in Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, footage emerged of a woman, believed to be a volunteer medic, lying on the ground with blood streaming from her right eye. What appeared to be a beanbag round was lodged in a set of goggles on the ground in front of her.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/an-eye-for-an-eye-hong-kong-protests-get-figurehead-in-woman-injured-by-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman who may lose an eye after being shot with a beanbag round has galvanised protestersTwo months into Hong Kong\u2019s political crisis, the faceless, leaderless protest movement has found a figurehead: a young woman who may be blind in one eye because o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"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":[41,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/7254","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7257,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions\/7257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}