HONG KONG: Tens of thousands of Hong Kong activists gathered on Sunday afternoon for a major rally to show the city's leaders their protest movement still attracts wide public support despite mounting violence and increasingly stark warnings from Beijing.
On Tuesday, protesters blocked passengers from boarding flights at the city's airport and later assaulted two men they accused of being Chinese spies.FILE PHOTO: Anti-government protesters stand at a barricade made of trolleys during a demonstration at Hong Kong Airport, China August 13, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Sunday's rally at the city's Victoria Park is an attempt to wrestle the narrative of the protest back. "If Beijing and Hong Kong's tactic is to wait for our movement to die, they are wrong ... we will soldier on." During smaller protest marches on Saturday - which ended without large-scale clashes - many protesters chanted"See you in Victoria Park!" as they left 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.
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