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Hong Kong protesters gather for a massive pro-democracy rally after seeing in the New Year with an evening of peaceful protests that morphed into clashes between hardcore demonstrators and police. IMAGES
Large crowds of protesters gather in central Hong Kong on Wednesday morning as the city braces for another mass rally in a show of strength against the government over a divisive plan to allow extraditions to China.
Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader says she has no plans to scrap a controversial plan to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland, a day after huge crowds came out to oppose the proposal. SOUNDBITE
Hong Kong riot police ringed the city's legislature on Wednesday to stifle any protests ahead of a debate over a law that bans insulting China's national anthem, the latest measure activists say is chipping away at free speech in the finance hub. IMAGES from inside chamber before start of anthem law debate.
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters gather in Central district Hong Kong for a rally themed "2020 Karma to Commies Universal Siege on Communists". Hong Kong's protests were sparked by a now abandoned plan to allow criminal extradition to the mainland, where the opaque court system is beholden to the communist party. It has since morphed into a wider anti-government movement. IMAGES