A Hong Kong court sent young activist Joshua Wong and two other student leaders to prison Thursday for their roles in huge pro-democracy protests nearly three years earlier, in the latest sign that ...

Tens of thousands of protesters bring financial district to standstill. — -- The streets of Hong Kong are filling up by the thousands as largely peaceful pro-democracy protests that started this ...

According to organizers, nearly half a million demonstrators turned up for an annual protest to demand democratic elections in Hong Kong and to denounce China's limiting of civil liberties in the ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of pro-democracy activists clashed with police in running scuffles in Hong Kong's gritty Mong Kok district early on Saturday in a bid to reclaim part of one of the city ...

Hong Kong police resorted to harsher-than-usual tactics to suppress protesters this week in the city’s biggest bout of political violence in decades. Police fired rubber bullets and beanbag rounds at ...

Protests became rare under Beijing’s grip Hong Kong, a former British colony, will mark the 28th anniversary of returning to Chinese rule on July 1. The city used to hold annual pro-democracy protests ...

"We'd rather die in the fight than slowly suffocate to death after we lose the fight," one protester told Business Insider.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong pro-democracy political party League of Social Democrats announced on Sunday it had disbanded due to immense political pressure, the latest casualty in a years-long ...