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Article: Curbs on rights roil Hong Kong; Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents protested a new 'antisubversion' law.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 2, 2003
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Byline: Robert Marquand Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BEIJING -- China's fitful experiment with the rights and openness associated with democracy proved volatile Tuesday. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao left Hong Kong hours ahead of the largest opposition protest in a decade, and new Chinese President Hu Jintao drastically revised a speech in Beijing that had been expected to promote reforms, like voting, inside the Communist Party.
Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents took to the streets on the sixth anniversary of the handover to China of the former British colony. Their grievance: an "anti-subversion" law known as Article 23 that ...