{"id":87089,"date":"2019-04-30T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=87089 "},"modified":"2019-04-30T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:42:00","slug":"87089-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=87089","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Thousands protest against China extradition law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Officials say they need to amend the law before July so that they can extradite a murder suspect to Taiwan.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>Demonstrators &#8211; some marching with umbrellas &#8211; fear Beijing is trying to exert more power over the territory.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>Police estimate that about 22,000 people took part, while organisers say this figure was closer to 130,000.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>Either way, these estimates would make it the largest demonstration since pro-democracy rallies in 2014 known as the Umbrella Movement.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>Reuters news agency reported that people were chanting &#8220;step down, Carrie Lam&#8221;. Ms Lam is the pro-Beijing leader of Hong Kong.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>Hong Kong has a separate legal system to mainland China, thanks to &#8220;one country, two systems&#8221;.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>The former British colony was handed back to China in 1997 on condition it would retain &#8220;a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs&#8221; for 50 years.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>But earlier this year Ms Lam&#8217;s government announced that it would overhaul the city&#8217;s extradition laws so that, for the first time, suspects could be extradited to Taiwan, Macau or mainland China on a case-by-case basis.\u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-48084019\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Thousands of people protested in Hong Kong on Sunday over a proposed law change that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial.&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-87089","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\/87089","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=87089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}