Students in Hong Kong form human chains outside their schools to raise awareness for remaining four demands of protesters involved in months of demonstrations in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
A man wears protective glove as people form human chain outside a school in Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Thursday that the decision to withdraw an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory was her government's own initiative to break the impasse, and not Beijing's directive.
The continuing act of defiance came two days after Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced that her government will be formally withdrawing an extradition bill that sparked the demonstrations. The proposed legislation would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be sent to mainland China to stand trial. Hong Kong is a former British colony that was returned to China in 1997 under the so-called “one country, two systems” framework, which promised the territory certain democratic rights not afforded to the mainland. In recent years, however, some Hong Kong residents have accused Beijing of steadily eroding those freedoms.
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