Inside the fight for Hong Kong

Two million people have flooded the city’s streets to protest China’s rising influence. Shannon Gormley on one day of the protest and the lives that it touched.

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Demonstrators durin≠g a prote≠st against a government proposal that could allow extraditions to mainland China, in Hong Kong on June 16, 2019. Opponents of the government plan were undeterred by the suspension of the legislation, protesting by the hundreds of thousands for the second consecutive weekend. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times/Redux)