BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has cut off news about Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests to the rest of the country.
No images of the rallies in Hong Kong have appeared in state-controlled media. And at least one man has been detained for reposting accounts of the events.
The coverage of the Hong Kong protests has been limited in mainland China to TV anchors reading brief statements, and to text reports with no photos. The reports have mostly mentioned illegal gatherings in Hong Kong and the efforts by authorities to disperse them.
In semi-autonomous Hong Kong, however, media have been broadcasting nonstop about the crowds. There’s been coverage of unarmed students fending off tear gas and pepper spray with umbrellas as they call for more democracy in the former British colony.
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170-c-18-(Kelvin Chan, AP correspondent)-“of their protest”-AP correspondent Kelvin Chan reports that, whatever happens, umbrellas have become a symbol of the protests because they’re a simple, everyday means of fending off not only rain, but pepper spray and tear gas. (30 Sep 2014)
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APPHOTO XWM104: Protesters chant “Jiayou! Jiayou!” — or “Keep it up!” — while waving their cellphones with the LED flashlights sparkling in the dark as they gather on the streets near the government headquarters, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s leader refused to meet with pro-democracy demonstrators by their midnight deadline Tuesday, despite their threats to expand the protests that have clogged the streets with tens of thousands of people in the stiffest challenge to Beijing’s authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) (1 Oct 2014)
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