What started as a pro-democracy student strike has turned into an occupation of the central business district in Hong Kong. Originally organized as a rebuke to the Chinese government for their shifty denial of the right of Hongkongers to directly elect their chief executive, the protest has grown demographically, as have the stakes. Led by by the student group Scholarism and the rare local Occupy outfit with an actual agenda, Occupy Central, tens of thousands of citizens have spent the past several days blocking an eight-lane thoroughfare in the heart of the economic hub of 7 million people. They have been tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and the 17-year-old leader of the student group that started the uprising was arrested and held for two days before being released with a standing threat by Hong Kong authorities that more serious charges could be imminent.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:00:14 +0000
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