HONG KONG: STUDENTS STAGE PROTEST RALLY AGAINST AGREEMENT ON HONG KONG'S POST-COLONIAL CONSTITUTION

Record ID: 214931

  • Title: HONG KONG: STUDENTS STAGE PROTEST RALLY AGAINST AGREEMENT ON HONG KONG'S POST-COLONIAL CONSTITUTION
  • Date: 16th February 1990
  • Summary: HONG KONG (FEBRUARY 16, 1990) 1. CU-PULLBACK-GV, SVS: STUDENT PROTESTERS AT SIT-IN (4 SHOTS) 0.18 2. GVS, SVS: EMPTY UNIVERSITY CLASSROOMS (3 SHOTS) 0.26. 3. SV: STUDENT SIGNS PETITION 0.29 4. GV: STUDENTS ON CAMPUS 0.34 5. GV, SVS: STUDENTS AT RALLY, SPEAKER ADDRESSES RALLY 0.50 6. GV: STUDENTS MARCH THROUGH UNIVERSITY BUILDING 1.02 Initials Script is copyrig
  • Embargoed: 3rd March 1990 12:00
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  • Location: HONG KONG
  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA8FRRS0FWZFGBRAGV2KLNM7PGK
  • Story Text: HONG KONG

    About 1,500 students chanting pro-democracy slogans and waving placards marched through the streets of Hong Kong to protest against the final draft of China's constitution for post-colonial Hong Kong.

    Students from 12 Hong Kong universities and colleges staged a half-day boycott and marched to the Chinese diplomatic mission. Protesters held placards accusing the British of selling out Hong Kong, over the Basic Law agreement on the territory's constitution after 1997 when it is returned to Beijing. Under the terms of Basic Law, one-third of the local Legislature will be directly elected in 1997, rising to one-half in 2003. The plan has been widely criticized as to conservative by many Hong Kong residents.

    The Basic Law is supposed to lay the legal foundation for Beijing's promises that Hongkong can maintain its capitalist system for 50 years after 1997 and enjoy a high degree of autonomy. However, confidence in those promises has diminished since June, when China suppressed the pro-democracy movement, which was widely supported in Hongkong.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - GARY LING</strong>
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