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Tag: Hong Kong Protests

November 16, 2019

Inside Campus Fortresses, Hong Kong Students...

Student protesters are barricading themselves in at universities across Hong Kong, stockpiling makeshift weapons and turning campuses into what look like war zones. It marks a dangerous new phase in Hong Kong’s five-month-old anti-government protests

November 15, 2019

Hong Kong Protests Enter New, More...

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests entered a new, more violent phase this week, following the death of a young protester

November 14, 2019

Hong Kong’s Triads: A Reporter Looks...

The triads first began to organize as part of a patriotic movement to restore Ming rule. But they gradually turned to crime, including the sale of drugs, such as opium, heroin, and cocaine. They gained control of gambling and prostitution rings. Much like mafia groups, members are expected to regard each other as blood brothers

October 30, 2019

RSF Calls for Release of Chinese...

Huang was arrested on October 17 in his home province of Guangdong on charges of “stirring up quarrels and causing unrest” , a vague motive often used by the regime against journalists that can be worth up to ten years. from prison

October 28, 2019

Protesters Again Take to Streets of...

Clashes in the streets as thousands of people took to the streets for another weekend of protests in Hong Kong. This week, the city’s governing body formally withdrew the bill that sparked the original protests earlier this year, but that has done little to appease protesters in this leaderless movement, who say they want the government to do more to stave off what they believe is encroaching control from Beijing

October 23, 2019

Dissenting Dollars: Hong Kong Protest’s Shopping...

Anti-government protests in Hong Kong have taken on an economic angle, with followers of the movement designating businesses by their loyalties and giving them color codes. Yellow — a color that in Chinese culture traditionally symbolizes royalty and courage, and was also the color of the 2014 pro-democracy “umbrella movement” — designates a supportive business

October 21, 2019

Hong Kong Protesters Clash With Police...

Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Hong Kong on the 20th straight week of protests against what they see as Beijing’s attempt to control the city. This week’s protest were met with strong opposition by police, who used water cannon and tear gas on the demonstrators

October 19, 2019

Hong Kong Protesters, Executive, Vow Not...

Hong Kong is bracing for the 20th straight weekend of anti-government protests after events this week revealed that both sides are digging in. Protesters say they won’t back down from their “five demands” of Hong Kong’s government, and the city’s chief executive said she would make no concessions to protesters

October 17, 2019

Hong Kong Lawmakers, Activists Slam Hammer...

Tanya Chan, convenor of the pro-democracy camp in the Legislative Council (LegCo) said she was very angry at the attack on Sham, especially after nobody had been arrested for an earlier attack on him in August

October 11, 2019

Hong Kong Becoming Conflict Zone for...

In Hong Kong, journalists covering the increasingly violent pro-democracy demonstrations have been injured by police action and sometimes assaulted by protesters

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