The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online.
State Council Information Office: Effective immediately, find and delete all news related to the 6/22 Hong Kong referendum, thoroughly clean up related comments, and promptly send a work report [on your progress]. Continue reading
Minitrue: Hong Kong Referendum已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
People line up at a polling center to vote in an unofficial referendum on democratic reform in Hong Kong, June 22, 2014.
Da Hai Han
June 23, 2014 7:13 PM
An unofficial pro-democracy referendum in Hong Kong has been extended through next Sunday, with nearly 720,000 people voting in the past three days to change how city leadership is elected. Continue reading
Hong Kong Voters Demand Election Reform in Unofficial Poll已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By Juliana Liu
Hong Kong correspondent, BBC News
Occupy Central co-organisers announce the number of votes twenty-six hours after their unofficial referendum began in Hong Kong on 21 June, 2014
Organisers from the Occupy Central movement said the number of votes cast exceeded their expectations Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE and CHRIS BUCKLEYJUNE 22, 2014
HONG KONG — Participation in an informal poll to gauge Hong Kong’s desire for democracy is exceeding expectations, helped on Sunday by hundreds of volunteers who are reaching potential voters in subway stations and shopping malls, bringing American-style retail politics to one small corner of the People’s Republic of China. Continue reading
Poll on Democracy Draws Big Turnout in Hong Kong已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Jun 21st 2014
FOR years after the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China’s leaders surprised the world by adhering scrupulously to Hong Kong’s unusual political set-up of “one country, two systems”. Continue reading
A showdown looms-China’s most prosperous city is becoming dangerously polarised已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
By Bruce Einhorn June 20, 2014
Occupy Central organizer Benny Tai
Photograph by Bobby Yip/Landov
Benny Tai, a soft-spoken law professor at the University of Hong Kong, is the man behind Occupy Central with Love and Peace, Continue reading
Hong Kong’s Most Dangerous Man Wants People to Vote已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central, People to Vote
Occupy Central, a grassroots movement that aims to bring universal suffrage to Hong Kong, has been subject to “one of the largest and most persistent DDoS attacks in the history of the Internet,” Continue reading
CloudFlare: Hong Kong democracy movement hit by ‘one of largest DDoS attacks in internet history’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Internet Freedom
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central
2014-06-20
A Hong Kong colonial flag is seen waved by a demonstrator during a protest against plans for a new town development outside the Continue reading
More than 400,000 Vote in Hong Kong Electoral Reform Poll已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
