A group of demonstrators marched from a downtown Hong Kong park to the U.S. Consulate on Saturday, to urge that Edward Snowden, the self-proclaimed source of recently leaked top secret National Security Agency documents, be allowed to stay in Hong Kong, according to The New York Times.
Organizers claimed that around 900 people showed up, but police said the crowd was around 300. The march was organized by “more than two dozen groups advocating free speech, democracy and personal liberties on the Internet,” according to the Times.
From the Times:
Many of the groups, including the Democratic Party of Hong Kong, have long been outspoken critics of Beijing for restricting individual liberties.
“He should be given the right to stay in Hong Kong,” Albert Ho, a former chairman of the Democratic Party, said in a speech at the start of the rally. “We must not let anybody intervene — we must be able to show that Hong Kong will not give in to pressure from other governments.”
