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Students Boycott Class As Hong Kong Protests Continue

NPR
Published September 2, 2019 at 12:33 PM CDT

Young pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong held a strike on the first day of school to show their commitment to the city’s anti-government movement.

The nearly three months of protests will be tested as classes resume after the summer break.

Here & Now‘s Robing Young speaks with NPR Beijing correspondent Emily Feng (@emilyzfeng).

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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