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Article: Masses protest planned Hong Kong anti-subversion law
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2003
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HONG KONG -- Hundreds of thousands of angry and worried Hong Kong
residents marched peacefully Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of Hong
Kong's return to China, to protest an anti-subversion law they fear
will undermine freedoms of speech, press and assembly.
"This will push Hong Kong toward an era of tyranny," said W.C.
Mak, a 74-year-old retired nurse. Mak said the last time she
demonstrated was June 1989, after Chinese troops crushed a student
pro-democracy movement in Beijing and 1 million stunned people in
Hong Kong, then a British colony, took to the streets.
An organizer of Tuesday's protest, Richard Tsoi, said more than
500,000 people had turned out.
Police said 350,000 people were on ...