The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
January 2, 2020

Tens of Thousands Protest in Hong Kong on New Year's Day
--------------------------------------------------------

Across the world, protesters celebrated the New Year by taking to the
streets to demand more democracy and to protest economic austerity. In
Hong Kong, tens of thousands of people marched on New Year's Day to
demand more political autonomy from Beijing. Police arrested 400
protesters, bringing the total number of people arrested in the ongoing
pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong to over 7,000.


.