Anger, guilt stir Hong Kong’s white collar rebels | Malay Mail

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HONG KONG, Nov 17 — Driven by anger at the authorities’ response to massive protests – and guilt that the burden of defending democracy has fallen on the city’s youth – a white collar rebellion is rippling out across Hong Kong. Every day this week thousands of office workers have downed...

Protesters clash with police at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China November 16, 2019. — Reuters pic

Faces masked, hands held aloft, many in crisp shirts – some in suits – they chanted pro-democracy slogans and blocked roads in business districts normally characterised by a tunnel-vision for commerce, risking arrest in a rally not sanctioned by police. “The least we can do is give up our lunchtime to come out and protest the government,” said 33-year-old lawyer Jansen.

He was wearing heavy-duty workman’s gloves and helping frontliners build a roadblock in Pedder Street – one of the city’s most exclusive shopping areas and moments from its major banks.Protesters fear Hong Kong’s freedoms, unique within China, are in danger.

 

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