'It is vital that we stand with the people of Hong Kong.'
I remember sitting in a cafe on Hong Kong Island with student journalists in 2018. Even back then they were saying that the political system was broken, and they felt they had no voice.
As Hong Kong’s young protesters have spray painted ‘we have nothing left to lose’ on the city’s walls in recent weeks, and protests are now taking place almost daily, my thoughts have gone back to that conversation.in over half a century. In recent weeks there have been marches of the city’s civil servants, airport staff, lawyers, nurses and doctors, bankers, students, elderly and mothers.
One of the key drivers of protest has been the failure of the Hong Kong Police Force. Videos show the police regularly using disproportionateSince the Umbrella Movement of 2014, there has been a sharp deterioration in the human rights situation in Hong Kong Furthermore, the police have been criticised for failing to protect protesters from being beaten up by triad and ‘pro-Beijing’ gangsters, which happened in the Hong Kong suburb of Yuen Long on 21 July.
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