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- Close to 2 million people descended on Hong Kong's streets on Sunday, Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), the organizers of the protests, estimate. According to CHRF, those numbers are unprecedented. Police estimated that the 338,000 people followed the protest's original route.
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The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (also known by other names) were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the largest series of demonstrations in the history of Hong Kong.
- Bill suspended on 15 June 2019 and officially withdrawn on 23 October 2019
- Hong Kong (solidarity protests worldwide)
- 15 (as of 20 April 2020[update])
- Diverse, see tactics and methods
Mar 28, 2023 · Wearing numbered lanyards, a small group of 80 demonstrators took part in Hong Kong ’s first authorized protest in three years on Sunday – a carefully choreographed event that campaigners...
Aug 31, 2020 · On 9 June an estimated one million people rallied on the streets in a sign of the growing and vast opposition to the proposed bill. But the government was unwilling to engage with protesters...
Jul 16, 2022 · Explained in data: What happened to Hong Kong’s protesters? Three years after the summer of mass unrest, some 1,500 of those arrested have been sentenced but hundreds of others are still...
Dec 9, 2019 · Of the 1.7 million people who are thought to have marched in the protests (around twenty per cent of Hong Kong’s population), No Name estimated that there were about ten thousand who could be ...
- Jiayang Fan
Jun 9, 2020 · One year ago on Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Hong Kong gathered for a march that became the start of the semiautonomous Chinese city’s biggest political crisis and the...
Sep 24, 2019 · Since April 2019, up to 2 million protesters in Hong Kong took to the streets. The protests were largely peaceful but were faced with disproportionate police violence. Clashes between police and protesters have now become a frequent occurrence. (Credit: Jimmy Lam @everydayaphoto)