2014 Hong Kong protests | Wikipedia audio article
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2014 Hong Kong protests


00:03:38 1 Background
00:03:46 1.1 Political background
00:07:02 1.2 Standing Committee decision on electoral reform
00:09:03 2 Events
00:09:12 2.1 July 2014
00:09:34 2.2 September 2014
00:09:44 2.2.1 Initial protests
00:14:07 2.2.2 Occupy Central
00:17:21 2.3 October 2014
00:22:27 2.3.1 Clearance actions
00:32:05 2.4 November 2014
00:37:31 2.5 December 2014
00:39:20 3 Impact
00:39:29 3.1 Effects on business and transport
00:43:13 3.2 Effects on Hong Kong society
00:46:23 4 Triad involvement and protester recruitment allegations
00:49:30 5 Local media coverage
00:52:50 6 Chinese government and media
00:54:30 6.1 Censorship
00:56:20 6.2 Allegations of foreign interference
00:59:39 6.3 Law and order
01:01:29 6.4 Other pronouncements
01:04:05 7 Chinese dissent
01:05:56 8 Domestic reactions
01:06:06 8.1 Political
01:08:52 8.2 Business sector
01:10:04 9 International reactions
01:10:14 9.1 United Nations
01:11:25 9.2 States
01:14:40 9.3 Foreign media
01:16:11 10 Aftermath
01:20:33 10.1 Post mortems
01:25:16 11 Imprisonment of prominent protesters
01:26:04 12 Nobel Peace Prize nomination
01:26:44 13 See also
01:27:06 14 Further reading



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A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution (Chinese: 雨傘革命; Sidney Lau: Yue5saan3 gaak3ming6; pinyin: Yǔsǎn gémìng) and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動; Sidney Lau: Yue5saan3 wan6dung6; pinyin: Yǔsǎn yùndòng), occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014. The protests began after the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) issued a decision regarding proposed reforms to the Hong Kong electoral system. The decision was widely seen to be highly restrictive, and tantamount to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s pre-screening of the candidates for the leader of Hong Kong.Students led a strike against the NPCSC's decision beginning on 22 September 2014, and the Hong Kong Federation of Students and Scholarism started protesting outside the government headquarters on 26 September 2014. On 28 September, events developed rapidly.  The Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement announced the beginning of their civil disobedience campaign. Students and other members of the public demonstrated outside government headquarters, and some began to occupy several major city intersections. Protesters blocked both east–west arterial routes in northern Hong Kong Island near Admiralty. Police tactics – including the use of tear gas – and triad attacks on protesters led more citizens to join the protests and to occupy Causeway Bay and Mong Kok. The number of protesters peaked at more than 100,000 at any given time, overwhelming the police thus causing containment errors.Government officials in Hong Kong and in Beijing denounced the occupation as "illegal" and a "violation of the rule of law", and Chinese state media and officials claimed repeatedly that the West had played an "instigating" role in the protests, and warned of "deaths and injuries and other grave consequences." The protests precipitated a rift in Hong Kong society, and galvanised youth – a previously apolitical section of society – into political activism or heightened awareness of their civil rights and responsibilities. Not only were there fist fights at occupation sites and flame wars on social media, family members found themselves on different sides of the conflict.Key areas in Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok were occupied and remained closed to traffic for 77 days. Despite numerous incidents of intimidation and violence by triads and thugs, particularly in Mong Kok, and several attempts at clearance by the police, suffragists held their ground for over two months. After the Mong Kok occupation site was cleared with some scuffles on 25 November, Admiralty and Causeway Bay were cleared with no opposition on 11 and 14 December, respective ...