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{"source_url": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk", "url": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/us-world/hong-kong-kicks-off-2020-with-fresh-protests/", "title": "Hong Kong kicks off 2020 with fresh protests", "top_image": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/_110361967_hongkong.jpg", "meta_img": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/_110361967_hongkong.jpg", "images": ["https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/_111462091_p08825r6-269x170.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/_111460248_p0881hlt-269x170.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/_111454789_p087y40j-269x170.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/p0880b5j-269x170.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1574226704_18_hong-kong-polytechnic-university-images-from-inside-as-siege-nears-end.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/_111463629_hi060843663-90x67.jpg", "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8c0ce9915e6830fa7c80de8e2bc5f2ba?s=100&d=mm&r=g", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1577877585_450_hong-kong-kicks-off-2020-with-fresh-protests.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/p0881c81-269x170.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/_111445541_makamba5-269x170.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/_97176213_breaking_news_bigger-269x170.png", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/_111456833_060839921-1-269x170.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/p087x6zs-269x170.jpg", "https://sitedeals.top/fitness/ads/300x250-6.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/_111457505_p087zz8q-269x170.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/_110361967_hongkong.jpg", "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dundee-messenger.jpg"], "movies": [], "text": "Image copyright\n\nEPA Image caption\n\n\n\nMany thousands of protesters gathered to march on the first day of the year\n\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong\u2019s protesters have welcomed a new decade via a New Year\u2019s Day rally, with tens of thousands joining a pro-democracy march.\n\nThough the gathering was largely peaceful, violence broke out in some areas and police fired tear gas.\n\nOn New Year\u2019s Eve, demonstrators had formed human chains that stretched for miles down busy shopping streets.\n\nMore than six months after the protests began, they gathered for midnight countdowns by Victoria Harbour.\n\nTheir chants included, \u201cTen! Nine! Liberate Hong Kong, revolution now!\u201d\n\nIn the lively Mong Kok market district, some set fire to barricades after dark and let off fireworks, disrupting traffic.\n\nPolice used water cannon to clear Nathan Road in Mong Kok and fired tear gas and rubber bullets, the South China Morning Post reports.\n\nSome 40 parliamentarians and dignitaries from 18 countries sent an open letter to Hong Kong\u2019s leader Carrie Lam on New Year\u2019s Eve, urging her to \u201cseek genuine ways forward out of this crisis by addressing the grievances of Hong Kong people\u201d.\n\nMedia playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The identity crisis behind Hong Kong\u2019s protests\n\nThe anti-government protests began in June over plans to allow extradition to mainland China, but have since morphed into a broader movement demanding full democracy.\n\nSome protesters have adopted the motto: \u201cFive demands, not one less!\u201d\n\nTheir goals are an amnesty for those arrested, an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality, universal suffrage, and for the protests not to be characterised as \u201criots\u201d. The fifth demand \u2013 the withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill \u2013 has already been met.\n\nHong Kong was a British colony until 1997, but was then returned to Chinese control under the principle of \u201cone country, two systems\u201d. While it is technically part of China, the territory has its own legal system and borders, and rights including freedom of assembly and free speech are protected.\n\nImage copyright\n\nGetty Images Image caption\n\n\n\nThe anti-government rally on 1 January was planned by the Civil Human Rights Front\n\n\n\n\n\nMore than 6,500 people have been arrested as a result of the protests so far.\n\n\u2018Freedom is not free\u2019\n\nIn the afternoon of New Year\u2019s Day, people of all ages gathered to march from the city\u2019s Victoria Park. Some wore masks, defying a ban on face coverings, and carried signs reading, \u201cFreedom is not free\u201d.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard to utter \u2018Happy New Year\u2019 because Hong Kong people are not happy,\u201d said a man named Tung, according to Reuters news agency. \u201cUnless the five demands are achieved, and police are held accountable for their brutality, then we can\u2019t have a real happy new year.\u201d\n\nThe pro-democracy march was organised by the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), which has planned a number of million-strong rallies.\n\n\u201cThe government has already started the oppression before the New Year began\u2026 whoever is being oppressed, we will stand with them,\u201d said Jimmy Sham, a CHRF leader and long-time political activist.\n\nMr Sham was hospitalised in October after he was attacked by a group of men wielding hammers.\n\nIn a speech on New Year\u2019s Day, China\u2019s President Xi Jinping said Beijing would \u201cresolutely safeguard the prosperity and stability\u201d of Hong Kong.", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": [], "authors": [], "publish_date": "Wed Jan 1 10:20:48 2020", "summary": "", "article_html": "", "meta_description": "", "meta_lang": "en", "meta_favicon": "", "meta_data": {"msvalidate.01": "B8E92D9C08B77425F9AE4D7FE8D1D57C", "viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1", "og": {"locale": "en_GB", "type": "article", "title": "Hong Kong kicks off 2020 with fresh protests - The Dundee Messenger", "description": "Image copyright EPA Image caption Many thousands of protesters gathered to march on the first.", "url": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/us-world/hong-kong-kicks-off-2020-with-fresh-protests/", "site_name": "The Dundee Messenger", "image": {"identifier": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/_110361967_hongkong.jpg", "secure_url": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/_110361967_hongkong.jpg", "width": 1024, "height": 576}}, "article": {"section": "World News", "published_time": "2020-01-01T10:20:48+00:00"}, "twitter": {"card": "summary_large_image", "description": "Image copyright EPA Image caption Many thousands of protesters gathered to march on the first.", "title": "Hong Kong kicks off 2020 with fresh protests - The Dundee Messenger", "image": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/_110361967_hongkong.jpg"}, "generator": "WordPress 4.9.8", "ca_title": "Hong Kong kicks off 2020 with fresh protests", "ca_image": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/_110361967_hongkong-150x150.jpg"}, "canonical_link": "https://dundeemessenger.co.uk/us-world/hong-kong-kicks-off-2020-with-fresh-protests/"} |
