{"id":41128,"date":"2019-09-07T09:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T01:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=41128"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:11:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T01:11:45","slug":"hong-kong-freedoms-must-be-guaranteed-german-chancellor-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=41128","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong freedoms must be \u2018guaranteed\u2019: German Chancellor Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIJING, Sept 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German Chancellor Angela Merkel said<br>the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong \u201cmust be guaranteed\u201d<br>after a Friday meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing, her spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong has been plunged into months of pro-democracy protests, and<br>ahead of her three-day visit to China this week protestors in the semi-<br>autonomous city appealed to the German chancellor to support them in her<br>meetings with China\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet Friday, spokesman Steffen Seibert quoted Merkel as saying: \u201cThe<br>rights and freedoms of the people of Hong Kong must be guaranteed. Solutions can only be found in dialogue; do everything possible to prevent violence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merkel arrived in China on Thursday with a large business delegation in<br>tow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prominent protest movement leaders in an open letter published by top-selling Bild daily warned that \u201cGermany should be on its guard before doing business with China, as China does not comply with international law and has repeatedly broken its promises\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong has endured dozens of sometimes violent pro-democracy protests triggered by opposition to a now-withdrawn law that would have allowed extradition to mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of Chinese dissidents have been given refuge in Germany,<br>including dissident-artist Ai Weiwei. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/?p=267597&amp;print=print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Sept 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German Chancellor Angela Merkel saidthe rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong \u201cmust be guaranteed\u201dafter a Friday meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing, her spokesman said. Hong Kong has been plunged into months of pro-democracy protests, andahead of her three-day visit to China this week protestors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}