A fresh round of protests broke out on Wednesday in Hong Kong over controversial legislation that would make insulting China’s national anthem a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in jail. Plans to “besiege” the city’s legislative complex as the city’s lawmakers met to give the National Anthem Bill its second reading on Wednesday morning didn’t materialize, but protests broke out around lunchtime in several districts. In the Causeway Bay commercial and shopping district, groups gathered to chant protest slogans in an upscale shopping mall. Police appeared to be conducting mass arrests in the area. Riot police fired pepper spray balls at crowds gathered in the Central business...
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