{"id":39764,"date":"2019-06-17T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T07:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39764"},"modified":"2019-06-17T07:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T07:22:15","slug":"sea-of-protesters-brings-hong-kong-to-a-standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39764","title":{"rendered":"Sea of protesters brings Hong Kong to a standstill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong for the second consecutive Sunday, 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\">Organizers of Sunday&#8217;s march said around 2 million people took part, a substantial increase on the 1.03 million claimed last week and against expectations of lower turnout following violent scenes outside the legislature on Wednesday. Police said 338,000 people took part Sunday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Large numbers of protesters gathered 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 Saturday while holding banners opposing the extradition bill.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong for the second consecutive Sunday, despite a move by the city&#8217;s embattled leader to suspend a controversial extradition bill. Organizers of Sunday&#8217;s march said around 2 million people took part, a substantial increase on the 1.03 million claimed last week and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39764","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\/39764","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=39764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}