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Hong Kong Archive
Written by Diana Thebaud Nicholson // January 2, 2007 // China, Geopolitics // Comments Off on Hong Kong Archive
02 January 2007
Hong Kong democracy campaigners Monday protested against upcoming leadership polls that they say are unrepresentative. Dozens of activists rode their cycles to the downtown government offices to show their opposition to the March polls. That’s when an 800-member election committee filled mostly with pro-Beijing elites will select the next chief executive for Hong Kong. The protesters want full elections open to the entire city of seven million to determine the city’s leaders.