Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong show no sign of ending, with strikes called for in the coming week.
Today, in the ninth week of pro-democracy demonstrations that have gripped Hong Kong since June, protestors streamed past the police barricades marking the end of the approved route and kept marching.
The protests began in June over a proposed bill that would allow authorities to extradite individuals accused of crimes in China back to the mainland.that calls for a strike on Monday have received support from 95 labor unions and from hundreds of staffers at 34 banks in Hong Kong's finance sector. "It is sad that the risk of protesting and potentially being hit by tear gas/arrested is getting a bit too high," one Hong Kong resident toldEarlier this evening, as protestors flowed east from their approved route in Mong Kok toward the luxury shopping district of Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui, news outlets reported an eerie quiet in the normally bustling neighborhood as shopkeepers closed early and customers stayed away.
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