EXPLAINER: Hong Kong's 'Occupy' movement and its leaders. Here are some key facts about the protest and the trial:
HONG KONG - A district court judge will hand down sentences on Wednesday for nine leaders of Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” protests that paralyzed parts of the former British colony for 79 days in late 2014.
- The so-called Occupy Central with Love and Peace civil disobedience campaign was first suggested by Benny Tai, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, in 2013. - The Standing Committee of China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, declared on Aug. 31, 2014, that any candidate for Hong Kong’s leader would have to get majority backing from an election committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists, as well as imposing other conditions that some in the city’s opposition deemed “fake, China-style democracy”.
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