Hong Kong neighbourhoods echo with late night cries for freedom


Choco Chu, 23, shouts slogan from his rooftop at Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong, China, August 29, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Every night at 10 p.m., Hong Kong neighbourhoods and university dorms echo with pro-democracy and anti-government chants, the latest form of protest in the Chinese-ruled city where a civil disobedience movement has been going on for more than 12 weeks.

What started as a protest against a now-suspended bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China for trial, has evolved into a broad, increasingly violent, and creative, struggle for greater democracy.

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