{"id":8254,"date":"2019-08-31T02:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/hong-kong-police-arrest-28-activists-on-eve-of-planned-protests"},"modified":"2019-08-31T02:21:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:21:26","slug":"wave-of-arrests-in-new-push-by-hong-kong-police-to-thwart-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8254","title":{"rendered":"Wave of arrests in new push by Hong Kong police to thwart protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former student leaders among dozens detained in move critics say is attempt to deter protesters from planned rally<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have launched a wave of arrests against prominent democracy activists and protesters, marking a new phase in government efforts to stop mass protests that have plunged the city into months of political crisis.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-leader-joshua-wong-arrested-says-demosisto\">police detained pro-democracy lawmakers and activists, including Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow<\/a>, student leaders of pro-democracy protests in 2014. The pair were charged with unlawful assembly and released on bail. Police said 28 people were arrested.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/hong-kong-police-arrest-28-activists-on-eve-of-planned-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former student leaders among dozens detained in move critics say is attempt to deter protesters from planned rallyHong Kong police have launched a wave of arrests against prominent democracy activists and protesters, marking a new phase in government e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"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":[41,555,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","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\/8254","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\/451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions\/8255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}