Defiant Hong Kong protesters vow huge rally despite Beijing threats

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HONG KONG: Hong Kong protesters are hoping to get out a huge crowd later Sunday (Aug 18) in a bid to show the city's leaders that their protest ...

Clashes have broken out between police and hardcore protesters but the movement has won few concessions from Beijing or the city's unelected leadership.at the city's airport and later assaulted two men they accused of being Chinese spies.

Billed as a"rational, non-violent" protest, it is being organised by the Civil Human Rights Front, a group that eschews confrontations with police and was the driving force behind record-breaking rallies in June and July that saw hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets.

Under a deal signed with Britain, authoritarian China agreed to allow Hong Kong to keep its unique freedoms when it was handed back in 1997. In the last two months millions of people have hit the streets while clashes have broken out between police and small groups of hardcore protesters.

 

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