Hong Kong protests challenge China with no end in sight
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They also demand that protesters not be punished — as the leaders of the pro-democracy “Umbrella Movement” demonstrations in 2014 were.Across these issues, protesters have increasingly held up signs expressing a broader wish: a yearning for greater democracy.Slogans such as “Free Hong Kong” and “Democracy Now” have become more widely used, said Antony Dapiran, a Hong Kong-based lawyer and author of a book about the city’s recent protest history who has been attending the protests since they began.“People are fundamentally saying that they don’t trust the mainland Communist government,” he said.
As said here by YANAN WANG and ALICE FUNG