{"id":9152,"date":"2019-09-20T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/19\/hong-kong-protests-police-violence-anti-government-human-rights-amnesty"},"modified":"2019-09-20T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T16:00:36","slug":"hong-kong-police-show-alarming-pattern-of-violence-in-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9152","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police show &#8216;alarming pattern&#8217; of violence in protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International report cites beatings, arbitrary arrests and \u2018thirst for retaliation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International has warned of an \u201calarming pattern\u201d of violence used by Hong Kong police at anti-government demonstrations over the past three months, with officers reportedly beating protesters before and after arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Based on interviews with 48 people, including lawyers and 21 arrested protesters, Amnesty International\u2019s East Asia director, Nicholas Bequelin, said the human rights group had shown that \u201ctime and time again, officers meted out violence prior to and during arrests, even when the individual had been arrested or detained\u201d, contrary to international human rights law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/19\/hong-kong-protests-police-violence-anti-government-human-rights-amnesty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International report cites beatings, arbitrary arrests and \u2018thirst for retaliation\u2019Amnesty International has warned of an \u201calarming pattern\u201d of violence used by Hong Kong police at anti-government demonstrations over the past three months, with&#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":[205,41,50,48,53,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amnesty-international","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","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\/9152","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=9152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9153,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions\/9153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}