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Hong Kong opposition lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting and six others were released on bail on August 27, 2020, after being charged with rioting over violence that erupted at Yuen Long MTR station in 2019. Lam was injured at the station when a group of white-clad men armed with steel rods and rattan canes attacked commuters and protesters on July 21 last year. Lam accused the city’s police of trying to “rewrite the history” of the attack by suggesting the Yuen Long incident was not an “indiscriminate attack”. Hong Kong Police Commissioner Chris Tang denied the accusations.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.