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September–November. December. Apart from protests on 1 October—the Chinese National Day—most of the significant events of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests in October 2020 took place away from the streets, and many of them outside Hong Kong and China. The threat to protests posed by the national security law was exacerbated by continued ...
Eight of them were prosecuted. As for the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, a total of 10,200 people were arrested by the end of December 2020, of which 40% were students, nearly 2,450 people were prosecuted, judicial procedures involving more than 940 accused were completed, and more than 190 people imprisoned.
Chickeeduck plans to move its operations from Hong Kong. Clothing store chain Chickeeduck sold shirts bearing humorized versions of slogans from the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, and later gained popularity among democracy activists for not bowing to pressure by a landlord to remove a statue of a protester in full gear on one of its premises ...
The month of September in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests saw again citywide unrest. Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on 4 September that the extradition bill, in suspension since July, would be fully withdrawn, which fulfilled one of the five demands of the protesters. [1] Also, following an earlier promise, Lam held a discussion ...
2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. On 14 May, authorities froze the assets of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai. This was the first time that the pertaining provision in Article 43 of the national security law was applied.
2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. After the 1 July police stabbing, Hong Kong police and the government characterized the incident as a "lone wolf" terrorist attack. Foreign media saw the stabbing as a sign of a steep decline of the reputation of the police in the eyes of some locals, a process that had begun with the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.
The founding cause of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests was the proposed legislation of the 2019 Hong Kong extradition bill. However, other causes have been pointed out, such as demands for democratic reform, the Causeway Bay Books disappearances, or a general fear of losing a "high degree of autonomy". [1] The Hong Kong protests are unique in ...
