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HKmap.live is a web mapping service which crowdsources and tracks the location of protesters and police in Hong Kong. The service was launched during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests and gathers reports on police patrols and tear gas deployments via Telegram.
The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (also known by other names) were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the largest series of demonstrations in the history of Hong Kong. [22] [23]
On 6 October 2019, during a post-match interview at the Hearthstone Grandmasters streaming event in Taiwan, Ng Wai Chung, a professional Hearthstone player and Hong Kong resident professionally known as "Blitzchung," donned a gas mask similar to those worn by Hong Kong protesters, and uttered the phrase "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our ...
The Hong Kong Protests are considered as 'no centralised platform' and people support the protests by self-joining. [11] [12] Social Media has been called and used as a battleground for public opinion on the Hong Kong Protests [13] [14] because the costs of communications are lowered [15] and they provide space for counterpublic communication. [16]
The sophistication, novelty and diversity of tactics and methods used by protests in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests have been noted by many scholars and news outlets around the world. They range from new principles of autonomy and decentralisation, incorporating different methods of demonstration, economic and social protest, and most ...
An appeals court on Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government's request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the ...
Protesters broke into Hong Kong's legislative council building on July 1, 2019, smashing windows and streaming inside as public anger mounted over an extradition bill that would have allowed ...
[8] [9] It was the first live round fired at a person by the Hong Kong police in this series of protests. [5] [10] [11] The protester was taken to the emergency room of Princess Margaret Hospital and in critical condition. [12] The Hong Kong Police called the shooting "heartbreaking" and added that "[t]he police officers' lives were seriously ...