{"id":23733,"date":"2019-10-04T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i2020i.com\/?p=23733"},"modified":"2019-10-04T07:55:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:55:46","slug":"hong-kong-leader-uses-emergency-powers-to-ban-masks-during-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/?p=23733","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Leader Uses Emergency Powers to Ban Masks During Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\nHong Kong\u2019s embattled leader invoked emergency powers to ban face masks at the city\u2019s pro-democracy protests, threatening offenders with a year in jail if they prevent themselves from being identified by police. Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced the move Friday morning following widespread violence this week marking the 70th anniversary of Communist rule in China. Lam said violence was \u201cdestroying the city\u201d and authorities could not \u201cjust leave the situation to get worse and worse,\u201d the BBC reports. The mask ban will come into effect midnight Friday. However, it is likely to be difficult to enforce\u2014mask-wearing activists marched Friday afternoon as the ban was being announced and urged others to defy the government. The emergency law invoked by Lam hasn\u2019t been used in more than 50 years.\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hong Kong government mulls mask ban\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M2Os1tE8f_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anger in Hong Kong over anti-mask law\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hPPoc9hCo0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s embattled leader invoked emergency powers t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671],"tags":[11110],"class_list":["post-23733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-series","tag-hong-kong-leader-uses-emergency-powers-to-ban-masks-during-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23735,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23733\/revisions\/23735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}