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    Behind huge Hong Kong march, a dramatic show of public support

    Dec 09, 2019 3 minutes
    As many as 800,000 people participated in a peaceful march Dec. 8 down a major road on Hong Kong Island.

    Hundreds of thousands of protesters staged one of Hong Kong’s biggest marches since June on Sunday, in a dramatic sign of the strength of public support for the six-month-old campaign for greater democracy and autonomy from China.

    The overwhelmingly peaceful protest was approved by police and saw an estimated 800,000 people surge through downtown Hong Kong, according to the organizer, the Civil Human Rights Front, the territory’s biggest pro-democracy group. The group also led marches of an estimated 1 million

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