{"id":40596,"date":"2019-08-24T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40596"},"modified":"2019-08-24T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T16:23:01","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-form-human-chain-across-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40596","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters form human chain across city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Protesters formed a human chain across Hong Kong Friday evening in a show of solidarity for the city&#8217;s pro-democracy <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/13\/asia\/hong-kong-airport-protest-explained-hnk-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">protest movement<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/16\/asia\/hong-kong-protests-evolution-intl-hnk-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">continues to gain traction<\/a> almost three months after it began.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The action was planned to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the &#8220;Baltic Way,&#8221; a historically significant peaceful demonstration against Soviet occupation. On August 23, 1989, an estimated two million people formed a 600 kilometer (372 miles) long human chain across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Starting from around 8 p.m. local time (8 a.m. ET), thousands of Hong Kong<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/21\/asia\/hong-kong-protests-yuen-long-station-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> protesters<\/a> began holding hands, forming chains along three subway lines to form the &#8220;Hong Kong Way.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Protesters formed a human chain across Hong Kong Friday evening in a show of solidarity for the city&#8217;s pro-democracy protest movement that continues to gain traction almost three months after it began.The action was planned to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the &#8220;Baltic Way,&#8221; a historically significant peaceful demonstration against Soviet occupation.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40596","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\/40596","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=40596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}