{"id":87202,"date":"2019-06-16T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=87202 "},"modified":"2019-06-16T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T07:36:00","slug":"87202-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=87202","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong extradition bill: Protesters return to streets despite suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The densely-packed crowds are demanding that the bill &#8211; which would allow extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China &#8211; be completely scrapped.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>The region&#8217;s leader, Carrie Lam, on Sunday apologised for causing &#8220;disputes in society&#8221; over the bill.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>A day earlier she delayed the bill plans after mass protests this week.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>Many protesters, who fear increased Chinese influence over Hong Kong, are calling on Ms Lam to resign over the unrest.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div><strong>What&#8217;s the latest?<\/strong><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>The protests have so far remained peaceful, in contrast to the previous major demonstration on Wednesday which saw clashes between protesters and police that injured dozens.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>By early Sunday afternoon, large crowds had gathered in the city&#8217;s Victoria Square, many wearing black or carrying white flowers. Organisers said they hoped more than a million people would attend, though no formal estimates of the crowd have yet been made.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-48649077\">Read more\u00a0<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting in Hong Kong against a controversial extradition bill, despite the bill having been suspended.&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-87202","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\/87202","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=87202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}