Hong Kong police today clashed with pro-democracy protesters who gathered in shopping malls, as they were not given permission to walk on the occasion of Mother's Day, which is celebrated in the Western world today.
Local media reports that one person has been arrested.
Such gatherings in the autonomous Chinese territory express the desire of the pro-democracy camp to revive last year's massive, albeit violent, demonstrations against the Beijing-backed Hong Kong government.
The months-long protests, which began in June 2019, paralyzed important activities in Hong Kong, with clashes between police and protesters and the arrest of thousands of mostly young people.
Due to the weakening of the coronavirus epidemic, more people responded to calls for today's action, although in a significantly smaller number compared to last year's protests of hundreds of thousands of people.
Protests erupted last year in early June, due to the meanwhile withdrawn extradition bill that provided for the extradition of Hong Kong suspects to Beijing.
The demonstrations grew into a mass protest movement against the local government of Hong Kong and the government of Beijing, and into a struggle for democratic rights and the preservation of civil liberties that were guaranteed to Hong Kong in 1997, when Great Britain returned the territory to China.
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