pro-democracy movement

‘Absolutely insane that Hong Kong is now a place where a piece arguing *AGAINST* violence is somehow evidence of national security offences.’

Pro-Beijing newspapers accused the shop of supporting violence and sent reporters pretending to be customers to secretly take photos of its staff members.

The occupation phase of the Umbrella Movement could be over. Whether it will be by police or protester action is the only question that remains.

As the Hong Kong government continues to clear democracy protesters from the streets, drawing the world’s attention to the Umbrella Movement, Beijing faces the problem of how to handle the anger in Hong Kong over the denial of universal suffrage.

Don’t expect the Hong Kong government to give in, CE Leung Chun-ying tells student protesters.

Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after being camped out on the city’s streets for more than two months.

The Chinese regime has been trying to suppress Hong Kong’s student-led pro-democracy movement using many of the same scare tactics the regime has always used to control mainland Chinese citizens.

The clearing of the second-largest protest site held by pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong continued Wednesday morning in Hong Kong, with police rapidly making arrests, including two of the most prominent student leaders.

Hong Kong authorities cleared street barricades from a pro-democracy protest camp in the volatile Mong Kok district for a second day Wednesday after a night of clashes in which police arrested 116 people.

The British never gave Hong Kong democracy when it was a colony so why are the students of the Umbrella Movement complaining that the Chinese Communist Party hasn’t!

A netizen is rallying supporters for an act of violence at the Admiralty occupation site.

Another song of the umbrella movement is timed well to speak to the fatigue now setting in, after nearly two months of protests and the occupation of key roads.

Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping called Hong Kong’s democracy protests illegal, and cautioned foreign governments from “interfering,” while calling for the maintenance of public safety.