{"id":8194,"date":"2019-08-30T16:35:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/joshua-wong-predicted-hong-kong-crackdown"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:35:26","slug":"joshua-wong-predicted-hong-kong-crackdown-in-interview-before-arrest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8194","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Wong predicted Hong Kong crackdown in interview before arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy figure said protesters must keep up the fight or outcome will be \u2018unimaginable\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Wong was serving a prison sentence for his role in the 2014 \u201cumbrella movement\u201d when Hong Kong\u2019s current protests broke out.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cAgnes [Chow] visited me and said: \u2018You know, on 17 June, when you are released, I guess the extradition bill will already have passed. In fact, 2 million people went on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/joshua-wong-predicted-hong-kong-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy figure said protesters must keep up the fight or outcome will be \u2018unimaginable\u2019Joshua Wong was serving a prison sentence for his role in the 2014 \u201cumbrella movement\u201d when Hong Kong\u2019s current protests broke out.He said: \u201cAgnes [Chow] visit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"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-8194","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\/8194","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\/449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8195,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions\/8195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}