{"id":8495,"date":"2019-09-04T21:49:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/hong-kong-lam-to-withdraw-extradition-bill-say-reports"},"modified":"2019-09-04T21:49:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:49:50","slug":"hong-kongs-leader-withdraws-extradition-bill-that-ignited-mass-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8495","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s leader withdraws extradition bill that ignited mass protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive did not concede to other demands including an inquiry into police violence<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has said her government will formally withdraw an extradition bill that has ignited months of protests and plunged the territory into its biggest political crisis in decades.<\/p>\n<p>In a five-minute televised address on Wednesday, Lam said her government would formally withdraw the controversial bill to \u201cfully allay public concerns\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/hong-kong-lam-to-withdraw-extradition-bill-say-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive did not concede to other demands including an inquiry into police violenceHong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has said her government will formally withdraw an extradition bill that has ignited months of protests and plunged the territory i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"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-8495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495","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\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions\/8497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}