{"id":39754,"date":"2019-06-16T07:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T07:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39754"},"modified":"2019-06-16T07:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T07:23:02","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-push-ahead-with-mass-rally-despite-suspension-of-controversial-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39754","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters push ahead with mass rally despite suspension of controversial bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Hong Kong is preparing for another day of protest as campaigners look to keep the pressure on the government, despite a move by the city&#8217;s embattled leader to <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/06\/15\/asia\/hong-kong-extradition-bill-pause-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">suspend a controversial extradition bill<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Protesters began to gather in the city&#8217;s Victoria Park just after midday Sunday, donning black and wearing white ribbons on their chests. Many carried bunches of white flowers to honor a man who died after falling from a building on Saturday, after holding banners opposing the extradition bill.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We buy the white flower to hope that he can rest in peace,&#8221; said 23-year-old Michael, who works in concessions and only gave his first name. Like many others around him, he carried a sign saying &#8220;Freedom is Not Free.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong is preparing for another day of protest as campaigners look to keep the pressure on the government, despite a move by the city&#8217;s embattled leader to suspend a controversial extradition bill. Protesters began to gather in the city&#8217;s Victoria Park just after midday Sunday, donning black and wearing white ribbons on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}