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To disperse the protesters, the police force used more than 800 canisters of tear gas, a record number for Hong Kong, in 14 out of 18 districts in Hong Kong. As the police used tear gas in close proximity to many densely populated residential areas, many residents, children, and pets were affected.
The 2019 Hong Kong District Council election, the first poll since the beginning of the protests, had been billed as a "referendum" on the government. [572] More than 2.94 million votes were cast for a turnout rate of 71.2%, up from 1.45 million and 47% from the previous election. [573]
The Hong Kong Fire Services Department's preliminary initial records had changed from 10 to 7 injured. [20]On 6 September 2019, several sit-in protests were reported in September wherein protesters demanded MTR to release the footage of the closed-circuit television [26] and were "calling on police to apologise for excessive violence". [27]
Hong Kong Way: September: 20 2 October: 22 1 November: 26 N/A Death of Chow Tsz-lok, Siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2019 Hong Kong local elections: December: 22 3 January 2020: 27 3 February: 12 N/A March: 6 1 April: 8 N/A May: 5 N/A June: 1 N/A
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 .
Hong Kong has struggled to attract tourists in their previous numbers after three years of pandemic border restrictions and a crackdown on dissent following 2019 antigovernment protests tarnished ...
9 June – Over 1 million people in Hong Kong protest against proposed legislation regarding extradition to mainland China. It is the largest protest in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover. [3] 12 June – June 12, 2019 Hong Kong protest: The Hong Kong government and police controversially declare that the protest has "turned into a riot". [4] [5 ...
An example of Hong Kong losing its freedoms is its steady fall on the Democracy Index. Despite universal suffrage being part of Hong Kong's basic law in the 2019 report Hong Kong scored 6.02/10 classing it as a flawed democracy, being only 0.02 points of a hybrid regime. Hong Kong also only scored 3.59/10 for Electoral process and pluralism ...