Hong Kong’s Airport Reopens After Unprecedented Closure

Hong Kong’s Airport Reopens After Unprecedented Closure
Anti-extradition bill demonstrators attend a protest at the departure hall of Hong Kong Airport, on Aug. 12, 2019. Issei Kato/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s airport reopened on Tuesday but its administrator warned that flight movements would still be affected, after some 5,000 pro-democracy demonstrators packed into the main terminal to protest the police’s brutality and “loss of control” over the weekend.

The Chinese regime claimed the widespread anti-government protests that halted flights a day earlier showed “sprouts of terrorism.”