HONG KONG - Hong Kong students, many wearing banned black masks, chanted slogans at their graduation at the Chinese University on Thursday , with some holding up banners urging"Free Hong Kong, Revolution Now".
The protests started over a now-scrapped extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial but have evolved into calls for democracy, an end to Chinese meddling in the city's promised freedoms and an independent inquiry into complaints of excessive force by police, among other things.
Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 under a"one country, two systems" formula, allowing it colonial freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland, including an independent judiciary and right to protest.China has also offered the same formula for fiercely democratic, self-ruled Taiwan, an island Beijing considers a breakaway province.
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