Hong Kong Protests Broaden Despite Police Crackdown

Expand A man glues a sticker label with messages against the extradition bill and pro-democracy in a Lennon wall in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, July 21, 2019. © 2019 Ivan Abreu/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images Bus and train drivers, teachers, doctors and nurses, lawyers, airline workers: these are among the people who joined today’s unprecedented strike in Hong Kong. Yet as the ninth week of protests begin, Hong Kong authorities have largely ignored protesters’ core concerns. Last week, Yang Guang, an official in the Chinese government’s Hong Kong and Macau Office, called for an end to violence,…

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