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The following is a month by month timeline of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. ... Unauthorized protests on 6 September, the original date of the postponed ...
[22] [26] [27] The name 2019 Hong Kong protests is sometimes used as there is no generally agreed upon end date to the protests. [ 28 ] On 27 October 2019, Politico editor-in-chief Jamil Anderlini published an article in the Financial Times titled "Hong Kong's 'water revolution' spins out of control". [ 29 ]
Two subsequent protests on 31 March and 28 April witnessed a sharp increase in the number of attendants, which the organisers claimed as 130,000 for the 28 April protest. As the Hong Kong government around Chief Executive Carrie Lam pushed for a speedy second reading of the bill, the protests dramatically increased in size, with estimates of ...
Hong Kong police shot and wounded one protester on Monday as chaos erupted across the city a day after officers fired tear gas to break up demonstrations that are entering their sixth month.
The month of June 2020 was the first anniversary of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.The decision taken by the National People's Congress on national security legislation and the alleviation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong led to a new series of protests and international responses.
The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (the top Chinese political office responsible for Hong Kong) released a statement calling protesters a "political virus" and stating that while many in Hong Kong have sympathy for the protesters, "the more sympathisers the tyrants have, the greater price Hong Kong will pay". It also stated the Chinese ...
This is a list of protests in March 2020 that were part of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. Protests activities largely centered around anniversaries of major events of the protests in 2019; there were also gatherings in shopping malls.
Many people wrote their slogans or postcards, and some holding a banner calling for independence of Hong Kong. The group shouted slogans such as "I love you", "Release the righteous and restore my righteousness", "Hong Kong independence, the only way out" and more. The event ended at 9:30. Some officers in the uniform called for the people to ...