HONG KONG (AP) — Scores of red Chinese flags now flap near the Hong Kong government headquarters in preparation for China’s national day as police patrolled the area thousands of demonstrators occupied a decade ago to protest Beijing’s restrictions on candidates running for the city’s top job.
This combination image made from two photos show tents set up by pro-democracy protesters at an occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong ’s Admiralty district in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, top, the same place on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. This combination image made from two photos shows workers clearing away a tent and other barricades at an occupied area in Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, top, and the same area on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024.
In Sept. 2014, protesters fended off police’s pepper spray using their umbrellas in a 79-day face-off, and the largely peacefulThe movement, also known as Occupy Central, catalyzed a profound political awakening among many young Hong Kongers and shaped the hugein 2019, the biggest challenge to Beijing since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
Activist Raphael Wong, who was jailed over his role during the 2014 protests told The Associated Press Saturday he misses Leung, Tai and other political activists who were prosecuted.“If I have to put it in the simplest terms, I’d say it enlightened many Hong Kong people about civil disobedience and inspired the later anti-extradition bill movement in 2019,” he said.
While large-scale public commemorations are unlikely to occur in the city, some overseas-based Hong Kongers organized events to remember the movement in Britain, Canada, Taiwan, Australia and the Netherlands this month. Others recounted their memories of the protests on social media. China-endorsed Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang on Thursday rejected that the city’s freedoms have shrunk over the past decade, insisting that the city’s 2020 security law and a
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