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16 June Hong Kong Protest March | |||
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「譴責鎮壓,撤回惡法」大遊行 Part of 2019–20 Hong Kong protests | |||
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Location | Hong Kong Hong Kong Island
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Goals | Five Demands
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Methods | Mass demonstrations and protest marches | ||
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Injuries | 33 hospitalized, 1 under life-threatening condition |
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The 16 June 2019 Hong Kong protest (Chinese: 「譴責鎮壓,撤回惡法」大遊行; lit. 'Denounce crackdowns', 'repeal evil law" march')[10] was held by the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) on 16 June 2019 in the same vein as an earlier protest on 9 June. Due to the postponement[lower-alpha 2] of the extradition bill amendment bill on 15 June, the main thrust of public criticism had pivoted from the bill itself to the abuse of authority by the police during the protest on 12 June. Five demands were proposed in the protest: A full withdrawal of the extradition bill, the release and exoneration of arrested protesters, an inquiry into the excesses of the police such as the use of tear gas and rubber bullets and the prosecution of protesters using medical information from hospitals, the retraction of the characterization of the 12 June 2019 protests as "riots", and the resignation of the Chief Executive Carrie Lam. The government did not respond to these requests, which caused significant delays to the resolution of the protest movement.[11][12]
The protest received international coverage, reaching the headlines of the American print editions of the New York Times and the Washington Post.[13][14] Estimates of the number of protesters have often differed severalfold between protest organizers and the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF),[15] and the number of participants in this protest became a focus of international media. The organizers of this protest estimated 2 million and 1 protesters, beating out the 28 May 1989 protest of 1.5 million in support of Beijing students protesting for the democratization of China as the greatest protest in the history of Hong Kong. However, the HKPF estimated only 338 thousand took part in the demonstration at its peak.[lower-alpha 3] However, the method used by the HKPF to count the number of protesters has led to skepticism of their estimate by news media such as Reuters,[4] the BBC,[17] CommonWealth Magazine,[18] and the Hong Kong Free Press.[19] The speed at which this protest was organized, and the fact that there were enough protesters that the protest spilled over onto adjacent roads, caused even more difficulties in counting their numbers. Of the many third-party estimates, Reuters and Japanese media only cited social scientist Paul Yip's estimate of "500-800 thousand people".[4][20][21]