Hong Kong police have arrested more than 500 protesters who staged a pro-democracy sit-in at the city's business district.
The arrests came at the end of a largely peaceful rally on Tuesday (July 1) . It was the biggest rally on the street since the city was handed over from Britain to China in 1997. Waving colonial-era flags and shouting anti-Beijing chants, protesters
carried banners emblazoned with slogans including "We want real
democracy".
Discontent in Hong Kong of some seven million people is at its highest level
in years over Beijing's insistence that it vet candidates before a vote
in 2017 for next leader.
At the end of Tuesday's march, few hundreds of people joined a sit-in in
Hong Kong's business district, with police moving in at 3:00 am
to break up the protest.
Police arrested hundreds of people who were participating in an assembly that was not approved.
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