Umbrella revolution

Two men were arrested and one left in an ambulance, after they came to toss smelly animal organs at the media mogul Jimmy Lai, seated at the main pro-democracy protest site near government offices here.

Here’s an archive of daily Umbrella Movement events from day one till day fifty-four.

It looks like Beijing is calling the shots. The strategy the Hong Kong chief executive adopts is the strategy Beijing wants.

HONG KONG—Hundreds of police officers descended on a recently occupied road and tunnel here, tearing through barriers and meleeing with pro-democracy protesters, until they had forced the crowd back to the position it had occupied this afternoon.

On the same day that pro-democracy protesters suffered the worst setback of their movement, they fought back by storming a crucial tunnel.

Spun off from the larger effort to obtain universal suffrage for Hong Kong, a controversy over the meaning of the rule of law has broken out.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s attending a secret meeting in southern China’s Guangdong Province has sparked speculation that he has been given marching orders for dealing with the Umbrella Revolution.

As the Umbrella Revolution enters its third week, there has been a concerted effort to stop the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily from reaching the people of Hong Kong. Apple Daily has been fighting back.

The occupation of key parts of downtown Hong Kong escalated on Monday, after protesters erected sturdy roadblocks made of bamboo, chains, industrial sticky tape, concrete, and city rubbish bins pushed into service as joints.

Over 50 Hong Kong artists, musicians, film makers, cartoonists, professors, and writers, including some well-known celebrities, have formed a group to support the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying will probably be removed, but most Hong Kong residents, who yearn for democracy, want to choose his successor themselves.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stated his support for the “one country two systems” policy while visiting Germany, but state-run media have kept silent about his remarks.

After Hong Kong’s chief executive called the pro-democracy movement “out of control,” the three organizations in Occupy Central published a joint statement saying “the government is out of control.”

A student protest leader on Friday called for Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping to extend his anti-corruption campaign into this semi-autonomous city and purge its widely loathed chief executive, Leung Chun-ying.

While the democracy protests in Hong Kong continue, hackers have been hard at work. Members of the hacker collective Anonymous say they have 51 databases from Chinese government websites, which they plan to leak Saturday.

The mysterious leak of information about a secret deal made by Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying may have been arranged by Beijing authorities.

Leung has been Beijing’s man in Hong Kong as chief executive since early 2012. The Communist Party backed him—until now.