{"id":3382,"date":"2014-09-23T00:54:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T00:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2014-09-23T00:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T00:54:15","slug":"thousands-of-hong-kong-students-start-week-long-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/thousands-of-hong-kong-students-start-week-long-boycott","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Hong Kong students start week-long boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/09\/77734486_024007243-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3383\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/09\/77734486_024007243-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"_77734486_024007243-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/09\/77734486_024007243-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/09\/77734486_024007243-1.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Carrie Gracie joined protesters on the streets in Hong Kong<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of students in Hong Kong have converged on a university campus to begin a week-long boycott of classes.<\/p>\n<p>They are protesting against China&#8217;s stance on electoral reform in the territory. Students from more than two dozen institutions are taking part.<\/p>\n<p>It is a prelude to a larger protest on 1 October planned by pro-democracy group Occupy Central.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has rejected open nominations for the city&#8217;s leadership poll, dashing hopes of those seeking full democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The boycott saw thousands of students gathering at 14:00 local time (07:00 BST) for a sit-in at the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus in Sha Tin, several kilometres north of the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Most are wearing white T-shirts with yellow ribbons &#8211; a colour adopted by pro-democracy activists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-29306128\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#8217;s Carrie Gracie joined pro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/thousands-of-hong-kong-students-start-week-long-boycott\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,370],"tags":[317,90,477],"views":4626,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}