A Pictorial Record of Hong Kong’s Historic Protest
On July 1, after weeks of anticipation, Hong Kong’s rambunctious voters took to the streets, marching 4 km in broiling sun followed by drenching rain to protest an increasingly heavy-handed attempt by the Chinese government to rein in the territory’s growing aspirations for democracy. It is a full democracy that was supposed to be granted as a result of…
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