{"id":44420,"date":"2014-12-25T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=44420 "},"modified":"2014-12-25T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T19:24:00","slug":"44420-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=44420","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Protesters Arrested, Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2014\/52\/201412258A59F3BB-264B-4E6C-8336-FB7BA6DD301F_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy10_cw0.jpg\" alt=\"201412258A59F3BB-264B-4E6C-8336-FB7BA6DD301F_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy10_cw0.jpg (640&#215;360)\" \/><br \/><div><\/div><div>Police officers try to stop an anti-Beijing protester throwing a balloon with picture of jailed Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo during a rally outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>December 25, 2014 3:44 AM<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Hong Kong police have arrested 12 protesters as pro-democracy demonstrators returned to the Mong Kok neighborhood that hundreds had occupied for more than two months.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Police said Thursday they used pepper spray and batons in overnight clashes and arrested demonstrators on charges ranging from assaulting a police officer to failing to produce proof of identity.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>It was the first sizeable rally since the last protest camp was cleared out on December 15.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>At its peak, the so-called Occupy protest movement attracted tens of thousands of demonstrators, presenting an unprecedented challenge to Beijing&#8217;s rule of Hong Kong.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The protesters want Beijing to allow fully democratic elections for Hong Kong&#8217;s top leader in 2017. China has said all candidates must pass through a screening process.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Hong Kong, a former British colony, was returned to China in 1997. As a semiautonomous Chinese territory, its citizens still enjoy many freedoms not allowed on the mainland.&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-democracy-protesters\/2573140.html\">Continue reading the original article<\/a>.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Police said Thursday they used pepper spray and batons in overnight clashes and arrested demonstrators on charges ranging from assaulting a police officer to failing to produce proof of identity.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}