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More than two months of pro-democracy protests have failed to sway the Chinese government's decision to put limitations on the way residents of Hong Kong can elect the region's leader and legislative council.
More than 210 protesters have been arrested by Hong Kong police, amid warnings of further arrests as police tore down the protest camp in the city's financial district, after a High Court made an order in early December that the site be cleared.
Protesters say during Britain's negotiations before handing Hong Kong back to China in 1997, an understanding was reached that China would allow Hong Kong to progress towards democracy, despite the rest of China remaining under communist rule.
Martin Lee, a lawyer who helped draft Hong Kong's constitution told ABC's 7.30: "The people of Hong Kong have come out demanding democracy from Beijing. We are not asking for anything new. It was promised to us..."
ABC Fact Check looks at whether China has ever explicitly promised democracy for Hong Kong, and if the protesters are asking for anything new.
On August 31, the Chinese government released new rules to govern the 2017 Hong Kong elections. The decision of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) includes a rule that Hong Kong voters must elect their chief executive from two or three candidates selected by a 1200-person "nomination committee", and those candidates must "love the country and love Hong Kong".
The pro-democratic organisation "Occupy Central with Love and Peace" said China's ruling to limit the number of candidates who can stand for election, and veto candidates it deems unsuitable "stifles genuine universal suffrage".
The NPCSC decision "has deprived people with different political views of the right to run for election and be elected by imposing unreasonable restrictions, thereby perpetuating 'handpicked politics'," according to an Occupy Central media release.
Macquarie Dictionary defines universal suffrage as the right to vote provided to all, or the principle that the right to vote for one's government should be extended to everyone above a specified age, usually eighteen.
In 1984 China's premier Zhao Ziyang told a Hong Kong University student body that: "In the future, it is of course a sure thing, that Hong Kong will implement the democratisation of the political system, that is what you called the 'democratic ruling of Hong Kong'."
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