Protests continue in Hong Kong, pensioners join forces with students

After more than five months of ongoing protests, the situation in Hong Kong has been relatively calm since local election day last week. In this election, convincing victories were marked by enemies of China.

Despite the calming of the situation, protesters are trying to keep their uprising at bay. They are being encouraged to protest what they are calling China's intervention in guaranteed freedoms with the 1997 British-Chinese agreement, with which political control had been handed over to Beijing.

On the other hand, China has denied intervention and says it is committed to respecting the formula “a state, two system”, which was adopted more than two decades ago. Chinese authorities have accused foreign powers of inciting protests.

I went to a peaceful protest in June and there were over a million people, but the government did not listen to our demands. I have seen many illegal violence and arrests by police. This is not Hong Kong that I know”, said a 71-year-old pensioner who was introduced by the name of Pon.

Protests in Hong Kong had first been launched due to a law on the extradition of citizens to China. Later, that bill was withdrawn from the government, but protesters have filed other demands, among which it is hand in hand.