{"id":8161,"date":"2019-08-30T11:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T02:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-leader-joshua-wong-arrested-says-demosisto"},"modified":"2019-08-30T17:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T08:46:04","slug":"hong-kong-joshua-wong-and-other-pro-democracy-figures-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8161","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: Joshua Wong and other pro-democracy figures arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activist Agnes Chow and Andy Chan, head of banned pro-independence party, also held<\/p>\n<p>Several prominent pro-democracy figures have been arrested in Hong Kong in an apparent crackdown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/26\/hong-kong-protests-dozens-arrested-as-government-warns-of-very-dangerous-situation\">protests that have plunged the city into its worst political crisis<\/a> in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The democracy activists Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow, former student leaders of pro-democracy protests in 2014, were arrested on Friday and Andy Chan, head of a now banned pro-independence party, was detained by police on Thursday. The two were later released, their political organisation, Demosist\u014d, said. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-leader-joshua-wong-arrested-says-demosisto\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist Agnes Chow and Andy Chan, head of banned pro-independence party, also heldSeveral prominent pro-democracy figures have been arrested in Hong Kong in an apparent crackdown on protests that have plunged the city into its worst political crisis i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/8161","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\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8247,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions\/8247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}