{"id":41866,"date":"2019-12-09T02:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41866"},"modified":"2019-12-09T02:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:22:28","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-keep-up-pressure-with-mass-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41866","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters keep up pressure with mass march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>The organizers of the large-scale demonstrations which kicked off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/asia\/hong-kong-protests-intl-hnk\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong&#8217;s months-long protest movement<\/a> earlier this year returned to the streets again Sunday, in a bid to maintain pressure on the city&#8217;s government following the success of pro-democracy groups at recent elections. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Tens of thousands of protesters of all ages began assembling at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay at 3 p.m. (2 a.m. ET) under bright blue skies. Many in the crowd could be seen carrying large banners, bearing slogans such as &#8220;Free Hong Kong.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">By late afternoon, parts of the city had come to a complete standstill, as crowds attempted to move through the main island to Chater Road close to the main financial hub. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)The organizers of the large-scale demonstrations which kicked off Hong Kong&#8217;s months-long protest movement earlier this year returned to the streets again Sunday, in a bid to maintain pressure on the city&#8217;s government following the success of pro-democracy groups at recent elections. Tens of thousands of protesters of all ages began assembling at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41866","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\/41866","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=41866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}