{"id":40620,"date":"2019-08-26T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40620"},"modified":"2019-08-26T16:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:22:51","slug":"gun-shot-petrol-bombs-and-water-cannons-mark-violent-escalation-in-hong-kong-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40620","title":{"rendered":"Gun shot, petrol bombs and water cannons mark violent escalation in Hong Kong protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>A Hong Kong police officer fired a live shot into the air as protesters squared off <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/15\/asia\/hong-kong-police-control-protests-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">against police<\/a> armed with water cannons Sunday, in one of the most violent nights seen since mass <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/24\/asia\/hong-kong-protests-subway-weekend-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">pro-democracy protests<\/a> began 12 weekends ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Commentary in Chinese state media Sunday signaled that Beijing is losing patience with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/23\/business\/cathay-pacific-hong-kong-protests\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">protesters<\/a>. State-run media outlet Xinhua said the central government had the &#8220;authority&#8221; and &#8220;responsibility&#8221; to intervene and prevent riots in Hong Kong &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/gangao\/2019-08\/25\/c_1124919138.htm\" target=\"_blank\">reiterating<\/a> comments made by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who oversaw Hong Kong&#8217;s return to China from British rule under a dual governance setup, which gives the city a separate legal system with more democratic freedoms until 2047. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Sunday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/23\/business\/mtr-hong-kong-protests\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">pro-democracy protests<\/a> had begun peacefully. Thousands braved a thunderstorm to march from Kwai Chung to Tseun Wan district, in the city&#8217;s New Territories. They showed up dressed in plastic ponchos and rain coats, and huddled under a sea of umbrellas.    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)A Hong Kong police officer fired a live shot into the air as protesters squared off against police armed with water cannons Sunday, in one of the most violent nights seen since mass pro-democracy protests began 12 weekends ago.Commentary in Chinese state media Sunday signaled that Beijing is losing patience with protesters. State-run&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40620","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\/40620","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=40620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}