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Hong Kong residents defend free press as China cracks down

by Associated Press
| August 11, 2020 3:03 AM

HONG KONG (AP) — Last year, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong to demand full democracy, many egged on by a tabloid newspaper critical of China's ruling Communist Party.

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