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Hong Kong Protests Cross Half-Year Mark with Rally

Associated Press

   Marchers are again expected to fill Hong Kong streets in a rally Sunday
   that will test the enduring appeal of the city's protest movement
   marking a half year of demonstrations.
   Police granted approval for the march, which could boost participant
   numbers.
   The rally was called by the Civil Human Rights Front, a group that has
   organized some of the biggest demonstrations since hundreds of
   thousands of protesters first marched on June 9.
   That rally protested now-withdrawn government proposals that would have
   allowed criminal suspects to be sent for trial in Communist
   Party-controlled courts in mainland China.
   The movement has snowballed from there into a sustained challenge to
   the government of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory and communist
   leaders in Beijing.

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