{"id":9834,"date":"2019-10-07T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/07\/hong-kong-protests-charges-anti-face-mask-laws"},"modified":"2019-10-08T01:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:02:25","slug":"hong-kong-protests-first-charges-brought-under-laws-banning-face-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9834","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Clashes as first charges brought under face mask ban law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man and woman, arrested on Sunday, appeared in court after arrest for illegally covering their faces<\/p>\n<p>Crowds clashed with police across Hong Kong in the fourth day of protests against an anti-mask law that the government claimed was needed to stop violence but critics say is a dangerous assault on civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong authorities brought the first charges under a new anti-mask law earlier on Monday, as the city slowly recovered from a weekend of protests against the ban that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/06\/thousands-on-streets-of-hong-kong-rage-against-mask-ban\">turned violent<\/a>, leaving a trail of destruction and shuttered metro stations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/07\/hong-kong-protests-charges-anti-face-mask-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man and woman, arrested on Sunday, appeared in court after arrest for illegally covering their facesCrowds clashed with police across Hong Kong in the fourth day of protests against an anti-mask law that the government claimed was needed to stop violen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/9834","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9860,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions\/9860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}