The 2014 Umbrella Movement was a 79-day long pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign originally conceived as “Occupy Central.” Thousands occupied roads around the legislature and in two other key districts following a student sit-in. Leading figures of the largely peaceful movement were jailed in the years following the police clearance.
LATEST NEWS & VIEWS
Man with white flowers arrested in Hong Kong on China’s National Day holiday
Videos on social media showed the man, dressed in a black t-shirt with characters reading “Hong Kong add oil” on it – a phrase of encouragement that roughly translates to “come on” – outside a department store in Causeway Bay.
Sole activist marks 9th anniv. of Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement
“Mid-Autumn Festival is the second-biggest festival for the Chinese – everyone wants to spend the festival with their family – I want [the] release of all the political prisoners,” Alexandra Wong told HKFP.
Foreign forces helped inspire Hong Kong’s mass protests starting 20 years ago, says security chief
In a video uploaded to Facebook on Wednesday, Chris Tang said a 500,000-strong protest against Article 23 in July 2003 was a test run of Hong Kong opposition “cultivated” by foreign forces to endanger national security.
COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS
Winning hearts and minds: mission impossible for Hong Kong’s new leader and his national security agenda?
No one wants to risk making critical potentially seditious remarks about the new Chief Executive – sedition being a new area of interest for Hong Kong’s national security police, writes Suzanne Pepper.
Beijing, Britain, pan-democrats or localists: Who is to blame for the death of Hong Kong’s democracy movement?
“Considering how the Hong Kong experiment ended, it should come as no surprise if disagreement over causes and consequences continues forever,” writes Suzanne Pepper.
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The Hong Kong returnees who want to leave again
“I always say ‘home is wherever I feel safe.’ Of course it is hard to let go. It is a bitter feeling… We have put so much time to help build Hong Kong, but now we are being uprooted – my career, my family, my friends,” said Pauline Choy, a Hongkonger who has gained Australian citizenship.
Hong Kong 25: Gov’t advisor and ‘democrat at heart’ Ronny Tong says political reform still possible
In an interview with HKFP, Ronny Tong said that “a new crop” of opposition leaders who respect and accept Chinese sovereignty of Hong Kong was needed to “take political reform one step further.”
Explainer: Hong Kong’s first small-circle leadership race since Beijing’s ‘patriots-only’ electoral overhaul
On May 8, Election Committee members will cast their votes to decide – from only one contender – who leads the city for the next five years.
