HONG KONG — After a relative lull in the protests, thousands of pro-democracy activists turned out Sunday for three demonstrations a week after scoring a major victory in elections that were viewed as a broad endorsement of the movement’s goals. The vote last Sunday saw pro-democracy candidates win 87 percent of the seats in local district council races. While the first two protests were peaceful, a later one saw several tense confrontations between demonstrators and the police. Officers fired rubber bullets and more tear gas while protesters attacked shops in the evening. The Hong Kong protests began in June over legislation, since scrapped, that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, and have expanded to include a broad range of demands for police accountability and greater democracy.

Source: New York Times December 01, 2019 09:11 UTC