From fledgling alliance to protest powerhouse: a tumultuous 19 years for Hong Kong’s Civil Human Rights Front
For almost 19 years, the Hong Kong Civil Human Rights Front has been synonymous with one significant date: July 1.The date is the anniversary of the city’s return to China in 1997, and every year since 2003 – when 500,000 people took to the streets to oppose a proposed national security law that was eventually scrapped – the umbrella group has marked the occasion with a major protest. That tradition, however, finally came to an end this year when the front declined to organise its annual rally,…
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