HONG KONG, June 10 — Several thousand demonstrators marched in Hong Kong yesterday evening — defying authorities a year after huge pro-democracy protests erupted — as the movement struggles in the face of arrests, coronavirus bans on crowds and a looming national security law. Seven months of...
Wednesday, 10 Jun 2020 08:16 AM MYT
Seven months of massive and often violent rallies kicked off on June 9 last year when as many as a million people took to the streets to oppose a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China. Defiant crowds a few thousand strong gathered yesterday evening in the city’s upmarket Central district to march and chant slogans.
“This movement has not finished,” said Jimmy Sham of the Civil Human Rights group, which espouses non-violence. “Hong Kong cannot afford such chaos,” she said, adding residents needed to prove Hong Kong people “are reasonable and sensible citizens of the People’s Republic of China” if they want their freedoms and autonomy to continue.Under a deal signed with Britain ahead of the 1997 handover, China agreed to let Hong Kong keep certain freedoms and autonomy for 50 years.
China’s planned national security law — which will bypass the city’s legislature once written — has pushed anxieties further.
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