{"id":87645,"date":"2019-04-25T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2019-04-25T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:20:33","slug":"hong-kong-leaders-jailed-over-pro-democracy-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hong-kong-leaders-jailed-over-pro-democracy-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leaders jailed over pro-democracy protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hong Kong court has jailed four leaders of 2014 pro-democracy protests amid heightened concerns over the decline of freedoms in the China-ruled Hong Kong.<\/li><li>The protests started in reaction to a decision made by China that it would allow direct elections in 2017 but only from a list of candidates pre-approved by China.<\/li><li>The protests were known as the Umbrella Movement after people used umbrellas to shield themselves from pepper spray fired by police to disperse the crowd.<\/li><li>Protesters have accused the Chinese government of breaking its promise to allow full democracy in Hong Kong and of encroaching more and more on the region.<\/li><li>Hong Kong was a former British colony till 1997.It was handed back to China on a condition that Hong Kong would be given a high degree of autonomy,except in foreign and defence affairs for 50 years.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong court has jailed four leaders of 2014 pro-democracy protests amid heightened concerns over the decline of freedoms in the China-ruled Hong Kong. The protests started in reaction to a decision made by China that it would allow direct elections in 2017 but only from a list of candidates pre-approved by China. The protests&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hong-kong-leaders-jailed-over-pro-democracy-protests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hong Kong leaders jailed over pro-democracy protests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[2353,2423,5393],"class_list":["post-87645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-china","tag-hong-kong","tag-umbrella-movement","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704937606},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}