It’s been six months since they began marching for democracy in Hong Kong. Today, demonstrators were back, some 800,000 of them marching through the streets of the city. From The Washington Post:
“Hundreds of thousands of people showed up in the park where the movement began in June, waving signs calling for the end of Chinese Communist Party rule and for the Hong Kong government to meet protesters’ four outstanding demands. The march, approved by authorities, was one of the biggest peaceful protests in the city in months — organizers counted at last 800,000 participants — and demonstrated the strong support that still exists for greater democratic freedoms despite a crackdown in which police have fired more than 10,000 tear gas canisters and arrested some 6,000 people.”
Watch coverage from the South China Morning Post above.
VIDEO: Watch as thousands of Hong Kong protesters thronging the city's streets create a display of lights by holding aloft their mobile phones pic.twitter.com/QD2K7jITJh
— AFP news agency (@AFP) December 8, 2019