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Surveillance Fears Shadow Hong Kong Protests

Last Sunday saw as many as a million people march against proposed changes to the Hong Kong’s extradition law that critics fear would break down the “firewall” between the territory’s legal system and the mainland’s. That demonstration was followed by smaller protests on Wednesday which aimed, so far successfully, to derail the legislative debate process ahead of the amendments’ adoption. This resistance has attracted inevitable