HONG KONG: Hong Kong students Monday began a week-long boycott of classes, gathering in their thousands for what democracy activists say will be a wider campaign of civil disobedience against China's refusal to grant the city unfettered democracy.
Around 3,000 students, many waving the flags of their faculties and sheltering from the hot summer sun under umbrellas, crowded onto a campus on the northern outskirts of the city as their leaders vowed to ratchet up their campaign if their demands were not met.
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