![]() ![]() People started coming to terms with the unjust society they lived in. Kong Tsung-Gan writes in the Hong Kong Free Press how after “camping out on the streets for 79 days, being teargassed, peppersprayed, beaten and arrested by police, the bitterness was understandable” (Tsung-Gan 2017). This goes to show that the progress of the pro-democracy protest and movement is minimal, as the government is still trying to undermine the “One Country, Two Systems” constitutional principle and limit the political freedom of Hong Kong citizens.Īfter the movement, many people in Hong Kong felt as if their continuous efforts did not pay off, and expressed their anger through social media and other media news outlets. In 2016, the voter turnout was record-level, as people “‘ thumbed their noses at Beijing’ and returned a raft of localist and localist-leaning politicians, including Law, then 23, the youngest-ever person elected to the city’s parliament” (Griffiths 2017).Ī lawmaker said that the government is trying to raise the bar to long-term imprisonment so they can prevent these kinds of protests in the future (Griffiths 2017). ![]()
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