Tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have gathered in Hong Kong's Central financial district to protest Beijing's broken promise. When Britain returned control of the city to the People's Republic on July 1, 1997, the mainland government had pledged to abide by a system of "one country, two systems" that would guarantee many of the special rights that Hong Kong had enjoyed under British rule. Part of that pledge included the right to choose its own democratically elected leadership by 2017.
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