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Have Covid and government brutality killed Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement?

Richard Lloyd Parry
The Times·
18 mins to read
Have Covid and government brutality killed Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement?
Protesters run from police at a Hong Kong shopping mall on July 1, 2020. Photo / Lam Yik Fei, The New York Times

It was in November last year that I first met Spider-Man; then, as now, he looked nothing like a superhero. I found him at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the narrow campus in central Hong Kong where a tumultuous confrontation was taking place.

Looking back more than a year later,

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