Protesters Mount Largest Rally in Six Months: Hong Kong Update
Demonstrators during protest in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong, China, on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019.
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Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through Hong Kong to mark Human Rights Day and press for greater democracy in the city in the biggest rally in about six months.
The rally and march from Victoria Park in Causeway Bay to the Central was the first Civil Human Rights Front-organized event in four months to be given the go-ahead by the government. The front estimated that about 800,000 people took part, while police put the figure at 183,000.