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(ANSA) - BEIJING, 01 MAR - Several hundred pro-democracy supporters gathered this morning in front of the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court in Hong Kong in support of the 47 dissidents formally accused on Sunday by the police of subversion, based on the disputed law on national security imposed by Beijing on the former British colony.
Seriously found guilty, they could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Some protesters chanted slogans including "Free All Political Prisoners" and "Stand with HongKong", others launched the "HungerGames" three-finger salute, used by democracy activists in Thailand and Myanmar.
A small group of pro-Beijing protesters, on the other hand, showed banners in support of the police, with one of the banners calling for "severely punishing the traitors".
Today's is among the largest protest demonstrations in recent months in the city, also struggling with the restrictions related to Covid-19, while Beijing's action to crush dissent is growing rapidly after pro-democracy protests and reforms. also violent, of 2019.
The police squeeze targeted the July 2020 primary of the pandemocratic front in view of the September political elections, postponed by a year to September 2021, promoted among others by Benny Tai and former MPs Claudia Mo, JeremyTam, Helena Wong and 'Long Hair 'Leung Kwok-hung.
The move has sparked renewed international criticism, led by the US and Britain, against Beijing's suppression of the freedom and autonomy promised for the duration of 50 years since the restitution of territories from the United Kingdom to China in 1997.
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