Hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists rallied outside the British Consulate, urging the city's former colonial ruler to emulate the US and take concrete actions to support their cause
in November 24 local elections, seen as a sharp rebuke to the city's embattled leader, Carrie Lam.
At a lunchtime rally Friday, hundreds of people chanted slogans and carried posters telling Ms Lam that "it's time to step down".On Thursday night, thousands joined a large rally to thank America, on its Thanksgiving Day holiday, and to call on other countries to join the US in supporting the protest movement, now in its sixth month.
Waving British flags, the activists urged Britain to ensure that Hong Kong political dissidents do not suffer the same fate as Simon Cheng, a former British Consulate employee in the city who says he was detained and tortured by Chinese secret police.and Hong Kong's government has slammed the US move as unwarranted meddling in its affairs.
"I and my government are listening to our people with a view to resolving some deep-seated problems in Hong Kong through dialogue," she said, adding that "Hong Kong can bounce back".Earlier Friday, police lifted their siege of Polytechnic University, a key earlier battleground with pitched battles between protesters and riot officers.
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