{"id":9865,"date":"2019-10-06T23:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/06\/thousands-on-streets-of-hong-kong-rage-against-mask-ban"},"modified":"2019-10-06T23:12:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T14:12:23","slug":"thousands-on-streets-of-hong-kong-rage-against-mask-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9865","title":{"rendered":"Thousands on streets of Hong Kong rage against mask ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peaceful protests in heavy rain descend into violence after police try to disperse crowds<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people turned out in heavy rain across Hong Kong on Sunday to denounce a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/03\/hong-kong-leader-to-ban-face-masks-as-she-activates-colonial-era-powers\">ban on face masks<\/a>, brought in under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/05\/hong-kong-emergency-law-marks-start-of-authoritarian-rule\">sweeping colonial-era emergency powers<\/a> in the city government\u2019s latest attempt to stem a four-month-old protest movement.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of cowing protesters, the ban has enraged them. Crowds shouting \u201cHong Kong resist\u201d and \u201cwearing a mask is not a crime\u201d marched through the city centre, Kowloon district and several other areas under a sea of umbrellas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/06\/thousands-on-streets-of-hong-kong-rage-against-mask-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peaceful protests in heavy rain descend into violence after police try to disperse crowdsThousands of people turned out in heavy rain across Hong Kong on Sunday to denounce a ban on face masks, brought in under sweeping colonial-era emergency powers in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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-9865","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\/9865","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9868,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions\/9868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}