Hong Kong 2014. Demonstrations for Democracy at the British Consulate. Street Occupation

Hong Kong is being squashed and brought to obedience by the government of Beijing. All the promises of independence and democracy made by China during the negotiations for the future of Hong Kong in the 1980s' are being disrespected.

These demonstrators slept for weeks in tents in front of the United Kingdom Consulate General in Hong Kong to push from Britain to held China accountable for all her broken promises 


The "Joint Declaration" is the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration













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