After a week-long of student-led protests in colleges and university campuses, the pro-democracy protest continues to intensify in Hong Kong this 2014. The protests were triggered by Beijing's fully ruling out of democratic elections in 2017.
Last Monday, September 22, over a thousand Hong Kong students took part in boycotting a week-long of classes to intensify their pro-democracy protests. The learners occupied the school campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong as part of their boycott. A day later, the 2014 Hong Kong protests emanated when student leaders said that 13,000 students had engaged in a caucus at the university grounds.
The students also endeavored to squall the government building towards the end of a week-long protest march. As stated by BBC News, the Hong Kong protesters shattered barricades and climbed enclosures to subjugate a concourse outside government headquarters. The South China Morning Post also reported that hundreds had assembled outside the compound chanting the words, "Shame on the police."
However, as the Hong Kong protest 2014 intensifies, the police fared to barricade around the building's concourse by late Friday night. Local media reported that some of the pro-democracy protesters were later allowed to leave after their personal details were recorded. Consistent with The South China Morning Post, the paper described the concourse as a common protest venue in Hong Kong, to which access had been constrained since July.
On Thursday, at least 2,000 university students executed a nocturnal protest at the home of Hong Kong leader, Chief Executive CY Leung. Earlier this week, CY Leung told the reporters that he was keen to listen to protesters' entreaties but accentuated that Beijing had already made its judgment and Hong Kong would still have a "one man one vote" voting scheme.
Hong Kong functions under a "one country, two systems" arrangement with Beijing. In August, Beijing decided that nominees for the 2017 chief executive selection would first have to be ratified by a nominating team. Advocates have argued that it does not aggregate to true democracy. As per Xinhua, China's President Xi Jinping emphasized on Monday that the rudimentary standard and guiding principle towards Hong Kong has not altered and will not change.
The students' boycott is perceived as a preamble to a bigger Hong Kong pro-democracy protest scheduled for October 1. The protest this 2014 was planned by pro-democracy group Occupy Central, which has declared to obstruct the financial district.
On Tuesday, through an editorial printed by the state news outlet Global Times, it said that protesters were injudicious in their ire and that Hong Kong had more vital issues to deal with, such as emergent inequality. It said that prolonged Hong Kong protests benefit nobody, whether the activists, the community or the mainland's affairs. And it will bring about nothing virtuous for Hong Kong.
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