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- The protests started in reaction to a decision made by China that it would allow elections in Hong Kong in 2017, but only from a list of candidates pre-approved by the Chinese government. Tens of thousands of people, of whom many were students, camped in the streets and demanded the right to fully free leadership elections.
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Sep 28, 2019 · Hong Kong campaigners are marking five years since the start of the 'umbrella movement' when protesters took to the streets in helmets and umbrellas. But what was it all about?
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The Umbrella Movement (Chinese : 雨傘運動) was a political movement that emerged during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] Its name arose from the use of umbrellas as a tool for passive resistance to the Hong Kong Police 's use of pepper spray to disperse the crowd during a 79-day occupation of the city demanding more transparent elections...
A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014.
Sep 27, 2019 · The protests of 2014 were about getting the universal suffrage that Hong Kong was promised in the Basic Law, the constitution that lays out how the city is to be governed after its return from...
Sep 27, 2015 · Frustration stalks the so-called umbrella movement, a loose collective that took to the streets after Beijing said it alone would choose candidates standing for Hong Kong's chief executive in 2017. But protest leaders Joshua Wong and Benny Tai agree that political awareness among the young generation was the movement's biggest achievement.
Sep 30, 2024 · The protest movement was known as the “Umbrella Revolution.” Ten years later, five Hong Kongers reflect on their roles during the protests, and how their lives have changed after Beijing’s ...
Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement occupied commercial districts for 79 days, from September 28 to December 15, 2014. The movement is so named because protestors opened umbrellas to shield themselves from the police’s pepper spray and tear gas. The sudden explosion of public outrage had deep roots.
