Hong Kong Braces for Democracy Rally Amid Turmoil Warning
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Hong Kong is bracing for a mass rally tomorrow that will be a litmus test of popular opposition to China’s insistence on controlling a leadership election.
Civil Human Rights Front, the main organizer, expects at least 150,000 protesters to march as a show of support for full universal suffrage and to oppose China’s insistence that it vet candidates for the city’s leadership election in 2017. Division over the issue threatens to bring about Hong Kong’s biggest political turmoil in a decade since half a million people marched against a planned anti-subversion law.