Pro Democracy Demonstrations, Hong Kong: The Revolution of Our Time
On June 9th 2019, an estimated one million people took to the streets of Hong Kong to march in protest to the government’s proposed Extradition Bill, allowing citizens to be extradited to mainland China for prosecution. Since that day, Hong Kong has been plunged into a political crisis, with waves of demonstrations and violent clashes between Police and protestors with an alarming rise in the number of police brutality and misconduct allegations, as protests morphed into a wider call for democratic rights and freedom in the semi-autonomous city.
Hong Kong remains on the edge with the anti-government movement still strong, protestors continue to take to the streets in their millions, continuing their call for Chief Executive Carrie Lam to meet their remaining demands since the withdrawal of controversial extradition bill, which includes an independent inquiry into police brutality, the retraction of the word 'riot' to describe protests, amnesty against prosecution for all those arrested, Carrie Lam's resignation and genuine universal suffrage.














