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#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/29/2014 #4

Hundreds of Hong Kong lawyers dressed in black stage a silence protest outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong, to protest a recent Beijing policy statement they say undermines the Asian financial hub’s rule of law. The event ~~demonstration~~ is the latest sign of growing anger over mainland China’s expanding influence over Hong Kong.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/27/2014 #3

Rioting Police officers use chemical weapons ~~pepper spray~~ as people ~~protesters~~ attempt to break into the legislative building ~~during a demonstration~~ in Hong Kong.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/16/2014 #3

Occupy Central people walk ~~protesters march~~ with 500 meter long black cloth, which they say symbolizes the loss of credibility in Beijing’s refusal to allow true democracy in Hong Kong, September 14^th, 2014.

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/24/2014 #4

Students at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts wear masks over their mouths during a silent parade near government headquarters in Hong Kong, where thousands of college and university students are boycotting classes in a week long push for democratic reforms.

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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/29/2014 #4

Rioting police use chemical weapons ~~pepper spray~~ as they clash with people ~~protesters~~, as tens of thousands of people ~~protesters~~ block the main street to the financial Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong September 28^th, 2014.

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/04/2014 #1

Pro-democracy students are assaulted by police ~~protesters scuffle with police~~ as an ambulance tries to leave the compound of the chief executive office in Hong Kong. Hong Kong people ~~protesters~~ welcomed an overnight offer by the territory’s leader of talks to defuse the crisis over ~~demonstrations seeking~~ democratic reforms, though they continued to demand he resign and maintained barricades around government headquarters, frustrating staff going to work.

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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/11/2014 #4

Pro-democracy people ~~protesters~~ attend a rally in the occupied areas outside government headquarters in Hong Kong.

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/12/2014 #2

Pro-democracy people ~~protesters~~ take pictures of an art installation made with umbrellas as they block a commercial area of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong. Hundreds of student activists camped overnight at major ~~protest~~ sites as the democracy movement sought to regather momentum after the government called off talks with its leaders.

Umbrella Revolution #Umbrella #HongKong

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#9 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/18/2014 #1

A pro-democracy person ~~protester~~ packs up her tent after rioting police moved into the occupied area in a dawn raid in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Police took down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than two weeks.

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#10 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/22/2014 #2

Pro-democracy people ~~protesters~~ watch formal talks between student protest leaders and city officials on a video screen near the government headquarters in Hong Kong. The panel chosen to pick candidates for Hong Kong’s 2017 election could be made ‘more democratic’, the territory’s leader said, the first indication of a possible concession to pro-democracy people ~~protesters~~ who have blocked city streets for weeks.

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#11 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/21/2014 #5

Masked pro-democracy people ~~protesters~~ try to break a glass window of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong early November 19^th, 2014, in response to an earlier clear up of part of the “Occupy Central” ~~protest~~ site.

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#12 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/02/2014 #1

Pro-democracy activists ~~protesters~~ gather as rioting police attempt to clear a demonstration site near the office of the Chief Executive in Hong Kong. Activists ~~Demonstrators~~ were trying to encircle government headquarters, defying orders to retreat after more than two months of activism ~~protests~~.

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#13 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/14/2014 #5

Singer and actress Denise Ho is taken away by policewomen from an area previously blocked by pro-democracy supporters outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong. Hong Kong authorities started clearing the main pro-democracy ~~protest~~ site that has choked roads into the city’s most economically and politically important district for more than two months as part of a campaign to demand free elections.

Denise Ho Wan-see #DeniseHo #HongKong

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#14 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/09/2015 #2

Pro-democracy lawmakers carrying yellow umbrellas, symbols for the Occupy Central movement, leave in the middle of a Legislative Council meeting as a gesture to boycott the government in Hong Kong, January 7^th, 2015.

Umbrella Revolution #Umbrella #HongKong

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#15 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/04/2015 #1

Pro-democracy people walk ~~protesters march during an annual protest~~ marking Hong Kong’s handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997 in Hong Kong, Wednesday. Thousands ~~of Hong Kongers~~ in crowds noticeably smaller than previous years took to the streets Wednesday to renew their call for full democracy for the Asian financial hub in a rally that follows a turbulent year ~~of protests over political reform.~~

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#16 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/29/2016 #3

A man with a yellow origami umbrella, symbol of the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement, takes part in the second anniversary of the movement outside government headquarters in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

#HongKong #Umbrella

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#17 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/02/2015 #1

Fireworks explode over Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor Thursday to celebrate the 66^th anniversary of China’s National Day.

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#18 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/09/2016 #5

Hundreds of lawyers wearing black stage a silent protest to the Court of Final Appeal against China’s parliament that passed an interpretation of Basic Law, in Hong Kong.

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#20 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/19/2018 #3

Pro-democracy activists Lee Wing-tat, Chu Yiu-ming, Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man, Tanya Chan pose for a photograph during a rally outside West Kowloon Court on November 19^th. The three leading Hong Kong democracy campaigners pleaded not guilty on Monday to public nuisance charges over their involvement in massive rallies calling for political reform, as room for opposition in the semi-autonomous city shrinks under an assertive China.

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#21 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/29/2019 #1

People ~~Demonstrators~~ wave their smartphones during a rally ahead of the G20 summit, urging the international community to back their demands for the government to withdraw a the extradition bill in Hong Kong.

2019 Hong Kong Extradition Bill #HongKong

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#22 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/08/2019 #1

Hong Kong • Anti-extradition bill people walk ~~protesters take part in a march~~ to West Kowloon railway station. According to the organisers, the walk ~~march~~ aims to spread the spirit of resistance to Kowloon and mainland China.

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#23 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/14/2019 #3

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam declared her effort to amend the extradition laws “dead” earlier this week but stopped short of formally withdrawing the bills. Activists have vowed to keep up the pressure until she does so. Many are also demanding her resignation.

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#24 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/20/2019 #1

Hong Kong • People ~~Protesters~~ break the windows of the Legislative Council building on the anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China.

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#25 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/13/2019 #1

Thousands of people ~~demonstrators~~ bring Hong Kong’s airport to a standstill this afternoon against ~~in protest of~~ the extradition bill as well as the police violence and brutality. People ~~Demonstrators~~ have taken to the streets of Hong Kong against ~~in protest of~~ a controversial extradition bill since 9^th of June which has resulted in several violent clashes by ritoing police.

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#26 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/27/2019 #3

An anti-extradition bill supporter ~~protester~~ throws a Molotov cocktail as people are assaulted by ~~protesters clash with~~ rioting police during a rally to demand democracy and political reforms, at Tsuen Wan, in Hong Kong, China, August 25^th.

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#27 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/16/2019 #2

A person ~~protester~~ uses an umbrella to shield himself from the jet of water of a water cannon fired by rioting police to disperse people ~~demonstrators~~ in Hong Kong.

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#28 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/08/2019 #1

A member of the press reacts after being hit with a molotov cocktail during an anti-government rally in central Hong Kong.

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#29 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/14/2019 #1

The Lady Liberty of Hong Kong seen on the peak of Lion Rock on October 13^th, 2019 in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong’s government invoked emergency powers on Friday to introduce an anti-mask law as people ~~protesters~~ marked the 70^th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China ~~with violent clashes~~ across Hong Kong and the Chinese territory remains on edge after four months ~~of demonstrations~~. People ~~Protesters~~ in Hong Kong continue to call for Chief Executive Carrie Lam to meet their remaining demands since the controversial extradition bill was withdrawn, which includes an independent inquiry into police brutality, the retraction of the word “riot” to describe the rallies, and genuine universal suffrage as the territory faces a leadership crisis.

Extradition Bill #HongKong

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#30 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/15/2019 #3

People ~~Protesters~~ hold up the flashlights of their cellphones at a rally at Chater Garden in the the Central district. Thousands of people ~~protesters~~ rallied in support of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which is being debated by the US Congress, marking the first legally sanctioned protest since an unpopular law banning the use of face masks at protests was introduced in September.

Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act #HongKong

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#31 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/04/2019 #3

Police officers aim their weapons as shoppers and people ~~anti-government protesters~~ gather at New Town Plaza in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China.

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#32 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/20/2019 #1

A person ~~protester~~ looks at fire at Hong Kong Polytechnic University during an anti-government event ~~protest~~ in Hong Kong.

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#33 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/28/2019 #3

A journalist works on his laptop amid items left behind by people ~~protestors~~ in Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University #HongKong

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#34 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/09/2019 #1

People ~~Demonstrators~~ wearing ‘Pepe the Frog’ and other masks stand during a gathering ~~demonstration~~ in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong saw its biggest pro-democracy action ~~protest~~ in months on Sunday, signaling more action ~~unrest~~ to come in 2020 as the movement that began in June to fight China’s increasing grip on the city shows its staying power.

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#35 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/11/2019 #1

People attend a Human Rights Day march in the district of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong.

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#36 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/26/2019 #2

Hong Kong • Residents dressed for Christmas festivities run from chemical weapons ~~teargas~~ as rioting police confront people ~~protesters~~. More than six months of unrest has ~~protests have~~ beset the city with frequent confrontations caused by rioting ~~between protesters and~~ police.

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#37 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/29/2019 #1

Rioting police stand guard inside a shopping mall after assaulting ~~dispersing~~ pro-democracy people ~~protesters~~ in Sheung Shui in Hong Kong.

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#38 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/19/2021 #1

Hong Kong, China police show their new goose step marching style on the National Security Education Day at a police school in Hong Kong Thursday, April 15^th, 2021. Authorities in Hong Kong are marking the day with a police college open house, where police personnel demonstrated the Chinese military’s “goose step” march, replacing British-style foot drills. The “goose step” march is one in which troops swing their legs off the ground in unison, keeping each leg straight.

Everything old is one day new again. #HongKong

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#39 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/18/2022 #23

In 2020, police in Hong Kong arrested at least fourteen veteran pro-democracy lawmakers, activists and a media tycoon on charges of joining unlawful protests in 2019.
China. It is China now. #HongKong died when China took over.

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#40 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/30/2022 #12

In 1997, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House in Hong Kong as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China at midnight after ruling it for 156 years. #HongKong

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#41 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/01/2022 #16

In 2019 hundreds of people ~~protesters~~ swarmed into Hong Kong’s legislature, defacing portraits of lawmakers and spray painting pro-democracy slogans in the chamber before vacating it as rioting police cleared surrounding streets with nerve ~~tear~~ gas; the three-hour occupation came on the 22^nd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China. #HongKong

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#42 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/21/2022 #15

In 2019, police assaults ~~clashes~~ involving Hong Kong’s people’s ~~protest~~ movement escalated violently, with rioting police launching chemical weapons ~~tear gas~~ at people ~~protesters~~ ~~who didn’t disband after a march,~~ and subway riders being attacked by masked assailants who appeared to be targeting the pro-democracy demonstrators. #HongKong

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#43 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/31/2024 #2

Hong Kong, China • Chung Pui-kuen, the former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong’s now-closed pro-democracy news outlet Stand News, leaves court after being found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious material.

Stand News #HongKong

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