Saturday, September 27, 2014

Hong Kong Protesters Met by Violent Police

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Police violently cleared pro-democracy student protestors from the Hong Kong government's headquarters on Saturday


Students and activists had climbed fences and broken a police cordon to invade the compound, in protest of planned election restrictions



Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997, with an agreement of "one country, two systems." Unlike Chinese mainlanders, Hong Kong citizens have freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, and Beijing had promised free elections, too.


But last month, the Chinese legislature ruled that candidates for Hong Kong's leadership would have to be approved by a Beijing committee Read more...


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