Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement returned to the streets in protest Monday in the wake of its landslide election victory. Melissa Duggan on the fresh demands from demonstrators. | CityNews Toronto

118K views · 1.2K reactions | Dramatic footage shows opposing protests in Hong Kong. Protesters lit a fire outside police station during the ninth weekend of demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong. https://bbc.in/31gI5sN | BBC News | Facebook

At least 138,000 — and as many as 430,000 — people took part in the seventh week of mass protests in Hong Kong on Sunday. The extradition bill the protesters fought against has been suspended. But they say they want more. | Vox

Behind the Molotovs and protest art, the Hong Kong demonstrations weren’t fighting colonialism, they were protecting it. Framed in the West as a struggle for democracy, the protests in fact advanced a deeply right-wing agenda: preserving Hong Kong’s British-imposed legal system, aligning with U.S. empire, and serving as a strategic tool to undermine China from within. This explainer strips away the liberal romanticism and Western left confusion revealing a protest movement that openly collaborat

Hong Kong's protesters have been immortalised as miniature figurines and in other creative pieces of art. Read the latest protest-related news: http://sc.mp/hkprotests | South China Morning Post