Hong Kong's protest movement was on life support. Then the government revived it | Analysis by jgriffiths
Hong Kong As Hong Kong welcomed the start of 2019, the city's pro-democracy movement, made famous around the world after the Umbrella Movement, was in the doldrums.
Activists had been jailed, while others faced prosecution over the 2014 demonstrations, which shut down parts of the city for several months. Pro-democracy lawmakers had been kicked out of office on a range of grounds, and numbers at events in their support or calling for political reform were dwindling. Polls found that confidence in the city's future was at a 16-year low. Then came the extradition bill. h1.pg-headline { font-weight: bold; } .
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