Occupy Central is the name given to the protests that paralyzed parts of Hong Ko...
HONG KONG - Occupy Central is the name given to the protests that paralyzed parts of Hong Kong for 79 days in late 2014.
Demonstrators demanding that China’s Communist Party leaders allow genuine universal suffrage in the Chinese-ruled city blocked roads in three important districts - Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok - drawing more than a million people, organizers estimated.- The so-called Occupy Central with Love and Peace civil disobedience campaign was first suggested by Benny Tai, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, in 2013.
- Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, states that both Hong Kong’s leader and its legislature be elected by universal suffrage as an “ultimate aim”. - The nomination conditions effectively made it impossible for opposition figures to get on the ballot and proved a trigger for the 2014 protests, also known as the Umbrella Revolution after the umbrellas protesters used to fend off police pepper spray, teargas and batons.
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