{"id":8812,"date":"2019-09-09T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/09\/hong-kong-police-accused-of-violence-against-journalists-covering-protests"},"modified":"2019-09-09T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:06:20","slug":"hong-kong-journalists-warn-of-rising-police-violence-against-them-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8812","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong journalists warn of rising police violence against them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters covering protests say officers using pepper spray and teargas, among other abuses<\/p>\n<p>Journalists covering the protests in Hong Kong are experiencing increasing violence at the hands of the police, according to media groups and first-hand accounts from reporters.<\/p>\n<p>A range of abuses have been reported, including being shoved and indiscriminately hit with pepper spray or teargas by officers, prompting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcchk.org\/fcc-statement-condemning-increasing-acts-of-violence-against-journalists\/\">Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club<\/a> to renew calls for an independent investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/09\/hong-kong-police-accused-of-violence-against-journalists-covering-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters covering protests say officers using pepper spray and teargas, among other abusesJournalists covering the protests in Hong Kong are experiencing increasing violence at the hands of the police, according to media groups and first-hand accounts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"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":[41,48,669,238,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-journalist-safety","category-media","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\/8812","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8813,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions\/8813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}