{"id":9842,"date":"2019-10-07T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2019\/oct\/07\/hong-kong-protesters-defy-the-mask-ban-in-pictures"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T02:01:11","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-defy-the-mask-ban-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9842","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters defy the mask ban \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masked protesters streamed onto the streets of Hong Kong over the weekend after the city\u2019s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, employed colonial-era emergency powers to outlaw face coverings at protests. Demonstrators defied the emergency regulation that came into force on Saturday, displaying their creativity with a huge variety of masks. The city, meanwhile, ground to a halt. The subway was suspended and swathes of shops and malls shuttered following yet more violence on both sides.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/06\/a-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-city-why-violence-has-spiralled-in-the-hong-kong-protests\">Battling for the soul of a city<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2019\/oct\/07\/hong-kong-protesters-defy-the-mask-ban-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masked protesters streamed onto the streets of Hong Kong over the weekend after the city\u2019s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, employed colonial-era emergency powers to outlaw face coverings at protests. Demonstrators defied the emergency regulation that cam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9844,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842\/revisions\/9844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}