Protesters in Hong Kong are trying to break into a government building, using a metal cart as a battering ram. The escalation comes ahead of a planned demonstration marking the anniversary of the city's return to Chinese rule:
Every year since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, Hong Kong has hosted a candlelight vigil on June 4. The vigils have also become an outlet to express anxiety about the state of Hong Kong and its future. This yearIn 2003, the government proposed a law criminalizing acts of sedition and subversion against mainland China under Article 23 of the city's de facto constitution, the Basic Law.
In 2011, up to 120,000 mainly young people demonstrated against a proposed civics class in all Hong Kong schools. Protesters argued the class was"brainwashing" students with biased information about mainland China. After the demonstrations, which were led in part by a student activist called Joshua Wong, the government withdrew the proposal.This 2014 pro-democracy movement began with civil disobedience and calls for free elections.
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