Hong Kongers took the streets yesterday in what was likely the largest demonstration since June, when the protests that have rocked the city for the past two months first began. According to organizers, 1.7 million individuals participated in demonstrations...
A recent incident involving NPP Kaohsiung city councilor Huang Jie and KMT Taoyuan city councilor Chan Chiang-chun proves a strange exercise in cognitive dissonance, after Chan accused Huang of violating Taiwanese national security laws for seeking to solicit donations for ongoing protests in Hong Kong against the deterioration of its political freedoms...
Clashes took place between police and demonstrators at Hong Kong International Airport yesterday night, with pepper spray being fired in the airport...
Thousands of demonstrators crowded into Hong Kong International Airport today in protest of yesterday’s police violence against demonstrators, thought by some to be the highest level of violence in the ten weeks of demonstrations to date. Despite high tension regarding possible police actions, most demonstrators eventually withdrew from the airport by the early evening...
Brutal scenes of violence took place in Hong Kong yesterday, with what some suspect to have been the highest level of police violence in demonstrations to date. Notably, a female medic is also thought to have lost her eye after being hit with a bean bag fired by police, with parts of her face also shattering, and tear gas was fired inside of an underground MTR station. Calls are now on the rise for an occupation of Hong Kong International Airport, to disrupt the operations of the airport as a whole, to take place this afternoon...
Protests in Hong Kong took a turn toward the playful on Wednesday, with protesters pointing hundreds, perhaps thousands of laser pointers at the Hong Kong Space Museum in what was billed as a session of “star gazing”. As the night went on, the protest eventually became a dance party. At the same time, rhetoric against protests from China and the pro-Beijing camp has notably escalated in the last few days...
Scenes of disruption took place across Hong Kong today, with a general strike and eight rallies held at the same time across multiple districts of Hong Kong. Apart from the heavy use of tear gas by police during the day, nightfall saw the reemergence of triad members to attack demonstrators...
Demonstrations continue in Hong Kong, with thousands of civil servants protesting yesterday outside Chater Garden, as well as protests today in Mong Kok. The past nights have also seen repeated demonstrations outside police stations in response to arrests...
With the rejection of the demands of the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the declaration of defeat, I remember talking with some friends about Hong Kong at the time...