Hong Kong Neighborhoods Echo With Late Night Cries for Freedom

Hong Kong Neighborhoods Echo With Late Night Cries for Freedom
Choco Chu, 23, shouts slogan from his rooftop at Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong, China on Aug. 29, 2019. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Every night at 10 p.m., Hong Kong neighborhoods and university dorms echo with pro-democracy and anti-government chants, the latest form of protest in the Chinese-ruled city where a civil disobedience movement has been going on for more than 12 weeks.

What started as a protest against a now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China for trial, has evolved into a broad, increasingly violent, and creative, struggle for greater democracy.