{"id":7754,"date":"2019-08-26T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/26\/hong-kong-protests-dozens-arrested-as-government-warns-of-very-dangerous-situation"},"modified":"2019-08-27T00:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:24:01","slug":"hong-kong-protests-dozens-arrested-as-government-warns-of-very-dangerous-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7754","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police defend firing live round during latest protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve-year-old among those detained after violent clashes with demonstrators<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police say they arrested dozens of people, including a 12-year-old child, over the weekend, as they defended firing a live round for the first time since pro-democracy demonstrations started in June.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they detained 86 people for offences including unlawful assembly, possession of offensive weapons and assaulting police officers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/26\/hong-kong-protests-dozens-arrested-as-government-warns-of-very-dangerous-situation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve-year-old among those detained after violent clashes with demonstratorsHong Kong police say they arrested dozens of people, including a 12-year-old child, over the weekend, as they defended firing a live round for the first time since pro-democra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","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\/7754","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7825,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions\/7825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}