{"id":8809,"date":"2021-01-15T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117894\/hong-kong-firefighter-who-took-petrol-bombs-protest"},"modified":"2021-01-15T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T08:11:00","slug":"hong-kong-protests-firefighter-with-petrol-bombs-is-first-member-of-fire-services-sentenced-over-2019-unrest-gets-34-months-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/hong-kong-protests-firefighter-with-petrol-bombs-is-first-member-of-fire-services-sentenced-over-2019-unrest-gets-34-months-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: firefighter with petrol bombs is first member of fire services sentenced over 2019 unrest, gets 34 months\u2019 jail"},"content":{"rendered":"A Hong Kong firefighter has been sentenced to 34 months\u2019 jail for his role in an illegal 2019 anti-government protest where he was arrested with petrol bombs and other weapons in his possession.Fong Chi-hung is the first firefighter sentenced over offences committed during the year-long social unrest that gripped the city, triggered by a now-shelved extradition bill.The case centred on a demonstration in Mong Kok on November 10, 2019, when protesters responded to online calls to occupy roads in\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117894\/hong-kong-firefighter-who-took-petrol-bombs-protest\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hong Kong firefighter has been sentenced to 34 months\u2019 jail for his role in an illegal 2019 anti-government protest where he was arrested with petrol bombs and other weapons in his possession.Fong Chi-hung is the first firefighter sentenced over offe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8856,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions\/8856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}