Thousands return to Hong Kong streets in protest
HONG KONG (AP) ��� Thousands of protesters poured into a main road in Hong Kong for a pro-democracy rally late Friday, reviving a civil disobedience movement a day after the government canceled talks with student leaders aimed at defusing the standoff.
Hong Kong Leader Warns Of Action Over Clashes
Skys Asia Correspondent Mark Stone said of the clashes: This is the result of total deadlock between the government and the protesters who want the right to choose their own political leader without interference from China. Beijing has said it will.
Hong Kong court says police can remove protesters
Hong Kongs pro-democracy demonstrators could be forced to leave the streets or risk arrest as early as Wednesday after the territorys high court ruled that police could start removing barricades and protesters from occupied zones.. Protesters in.
Pro-Democracy Protests Shake Hong Kong
HONG KONG���Police used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protesters in the citys most serious confrontation with Beijing in more than a decade. Roads were blocked and some schools and offices were closed Monday morning as .
79 Days That Shook Hong Kong
. protests in Hong Kong on Sept. 29, 2014. Xaume Olleros���AFP/Getty Images. Pro-democracy demonstrators are sprayed with pepper spray during clashes with police officers during a rally near the Hong Kong government headquarters on Sept. 28, 2014.
Hong Kong protest leaders to poll followers about officials offer
Hong Kong democracy protest leaders were organizing for an electronic vote Sunday to gauge protesters opinions about the governments recent olive branch. But some. Hong Kong, a former British territory, was returned to Chinese rule in 1997 under a.
Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders denied permit to Beijing
Protesters in Hong Kong took to the streets in late September to express their anger over guidelines for the semi-autonomous territorys 2017 chief executive election issued in August by the standing committee. Though the guidelines say voters will be .
Hong Kong protesters: Well be back
HONG KONG ��� Well be back. That was the battle cry of protesters Thursday after police arrested more than 200 people. Authorities demolished the demonstrators campsite but not their determination to keep a 10-week-long pro-democracy movement alive .
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Workers remove a logo left by pro-democracy protesters in the shape of an umbrella during a clearance at the last ���Occupy��� protest site blocking a main road at Causeway Bay shopping district in Hong Kong The mass protest has become. All the three protest sites ��� in the Admiralty, Mong Kok and Causeway Bay districts ��� were set to go by Dec 16, with the streets being tidied up and returned to traffic, office workers and shoppers. Beijing has refused to budge on��.
Hong Kong student leaders say they may stay on the streets until June
Student leaders of Hong Kongs pro-democracy protests said Friday they might stay on the streets until next June if their attempt to seek talks with authorities in Beijing fails to resolve their political impasse... Protesters in Hong Kong, a former.
Hong Kong protests: Students stage rally outside chief.
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters continue to hold key Hong Kong streets as Chinas National Day celebrations begin.. ���Beijing will tolerate it for a few more days,��� he guessed, but by next week, once the city would normally have returned to a regular working week, he did not expect the current restraint ��� with no uniformed police visible ��� to last. A 19-year-old student told me. Sky News has a camera on the large rally outside the Chinese embassy in London.
Pro-democracy protesters to return to Hong Kong streets
RETURNING SOON? In this file photo, pro-democracy protesters of Hong Kongs civil disobedience Umbrella Movement sing Christmas carols in the street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China, 24 December 2014.
Thousands return to streets in protest at governments decision
Protest crowds in Admiralty swelled into the thousands last night and student leaders called for a long-term Occupy as Hong Kongs top leaders prepared to leave the city for a regional forum in Guangzhou. Watch: Timelapse:.. I dont think so-called pro-democracy protesters acts have anything to do with democracy but its about instant gratification, being too soaked up in their own mental masturbation and exceptionalism and unbridled perversion for entitlement.
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists threaten to step up.
Leaders of pro-democracy protests deliver ultimatum to chief executive Leung Chun-ying after hardline response.. Protesters relax on the streets outside the Hong Kong Government Complex. Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images. in Hong Kong. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images. David Cameron, the UK prime minister, said that he was ���deeply concerned��� about the situation and told Sky News he hoped the stand-off could be resolved.
Hong Kong police clear protesters barricades, face little resistance
Hong Kong police cleared barricades erected by democracy demonstrators in the Mong Kok neighborhood early Friday, encountering little resistance from the dwindling number of protesters camped out there. Hundreds of officers arrived on the.
Hong Kong Protesters Let Workers Return
Many told Sky News they were pleased to be able to get to their offices. 1/6. Day of Democracy posters. Gallery: Protest Is An Art In Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have been keeping their message alive with highly-produced poster art .
Hong Kong leader offers talks but refuses to step down over.
Hong Kongs chief executive has refused to quit but offered talks to pro-democracy protest leaders minutes before their deadline for him to resign at midnight on Thursday. Student leaders had threatened to occupy government��.
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Democracy activists prepare protests after standing committee says it will select candidates for leader of Chinese territory. Hong Kong. Police officers patrol an area in Hong Kong where protesters from Occupy Central are expected to. Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images. Chinese leaders agreed then that the chief executive would be chosen by universal suffrage in 2017 ��� language that pro-democracy activists say shows Beijing has not kept its promises.
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Hong Kong Protests subside. Workers seen returning to their offices. Many told Sky News they were pleased to be able to get to their offices. One man said he was ���relieved the situation seemed to be calming down���, while a woman said. Day of Democracy posters. Gallery: Protest Is An Art In Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have been keeping their message alive with highly-produced poster art celebrating the Umbrella Revolution. Day of Democracy posters.
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Over the past week, tens of thousands of Hong Kong people have occupied the streets of their semi-autonomous city to advocate for the democratic elections slated to launch in 2017.. Xaume Olleros/AFP/Getty Images. Police fired tear gas as tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators brought parts of central Hong Kong to a standstill on September 28, in a dramatic escalation of protests that have gripped the semi-autonomous Chinese city for days.
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By Jonathan Samuels, Sky News Correspondent in Hong Kong A deadline to clear the streets set by Hong Kongs chief executive has passed with.
Hong Kong police dismantle protest camps
HONG KONG ��� Police arrested more than 200 pro-democracy protesters Thursday as teams with sledgehammers and chainsaws demolished camps and tore down tents erected by activists as part of a mass civil disobedience movement. The police .
Gallery: Pro-Democracy Protesters Return To Streets Of Hong Kong
Gallery: Pro-Democracy Protesters Return To Streets Of Hong Kong. 13:19, UK, Sunday 01 February 2015. 1/12. Hong Kong Protests. Gallery: Pro-Democracy Protesters Return To Streets Of Hong Kong. Thousands of pro-democracy protesters returned to the .
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Fresh clashes broke out in Hong Kong as pro-democracy demonstrators attempted to take back a protest camp in a densely populated suburb that had been partially cleared by police earlier in the day.ANTHONY WALLACE��.
Hong Kong Protesters Remain In The City Center Amid.
hong kong REUTERS/Bobby YipA mainland Chinese visitor looks on in front of policemen during a blockage by pro-democracy protesters on a main road at the Mongkok shopping district in Hong Kong October 5, 2014. HONG. Facing a government deadline on Monday to clear the streets of protesters so that Hong Kongs schools, businesses and government offices can return to work, the protest groups have said they would dismantle barricades to key government��.
Hong Kong Court Orders Umbrella Movement Protest Sites.
HONG KONG ��� Hong Kongs High Court has ordered the main protest sites that have choked the financial city for more than two months to be cleared, building up to a final showdown between pro-democracy activists and authorities backed by Beijing. A local bus company, which was granted an injunction against street blockades at the site in Admiralty, home to government offices and next to the main Central business district, has received an official clearance order��.
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True, people in the USA marched to protest grand juries failure to indict white policemen in the deaths of unarmed black men, in Hong Kong to demand democratic elections, in Ukraine to oust an unpopular regime. Huge crowds gathered. Not compared to.
Hong Kong protests: pro-democracy rallies remain as national
Follow live updates on the Umbrella Revolution pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.. As dawn broke in Hong Kong Wednesday, thousands of protesters who had spent the night in the streets despite heavy rains prepared to mark National Day, a major holiday across China, with new demonstrations. The protesters continued presence. Officials have announced a news conference to discuss the case.. See a gallery of readers pictures of the historic protests.
Trial of Hong Kongs Billionaire Kwok Brothers Headed for Jury
HONG KONG���The bribery trial of two billionaire brothers and Hong Kongs former No. 2 official will soon go to the jury, in a case that would have transfixed this city in more normal times. The trial, held within sight of the biggest political protest.
Communists attack pro-democracy Hong Kong protests
. real democracy!��� he shouted. Drone Captures Hong Kong Protests From The Skies. Despite the heavy use of tear gas on Sunday, pro-democracy protesters. returned to central Hong Kong on Monday.Photo: Getty Images. Protesters also occupied streets in other parts of Hong Kong Island, including the upscale shopping area of Causeway Bay as well as across the harbor in densely populated Mong Kok on the Kowloon peninsula. The citys transport department��.
Hong Kong protests: Violence organized, Occupy Central.
Police threaten to intervene as fights break out between pro-Beijing and pro-democracy protesters.. Read Tanias latest news report from the scene here. Listen to her audio report here. The Hong Kong government issued what it called ���another stern warning to protesters��� to leave the streets.. Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images Protesters take over the outside of Hong Kongs Chief Executive C.Y. Leungs office on October 4, 2014 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Both sides in Hong Kong warn of crisis as clashes continue
After a flare-up of violence between Hong Kong police and pro-democracy demonstrators Saturday, government officials and protest leaders alike warned that the situation was heading toward a breaking point. Demonstrators remained encamped around.