Explainer - What was Hong Kong's 'Occupy' movement all about?


  • World
  • Wednesday, 24 Apr 2019

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Occupy Central is the name given to the protests that paralysed parts of Hong Kong for 79 days in late 2014.

Demonstrators demanding that China's Communist Party leaders allow genuine universal suffrage in the Chinese-ruled city blocked roads in three important districts - Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok - drawing more than a million people, organisers estimated.

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