Umbrella Movement Day 54

Day 54 of the Umbrella Revolution/Movement in Hong Kong. (Thursday 20 November 2014)

• The latest Hong Kong University poll finds that 58% of 18-29 year olds think that the Occupy protests should end. Also only around a third of Hong Kongers continue to support the protest with most against the occupations.
• Scuffles have broken out around the main stage in Admiralty with an increase in different opinions being presented to the public.
• Several more people have been arrested in relation to the violence that coincided with the breaking of the Legislative Council door/window. Police have accused the suspects of charging at the police line.
• Jimmy Lai, owner Apple Daily newspaper (pro-deomocratic camp) says that the protesters should retreat from the current protest, re-energise and return later.
  
• The Hong Kong Federation of Students has declined an invitation to give evidence at a US Congressional Committee fearing accusations of foreign interference as American senators seek to introduce 'The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act'.
• The Court of Appeal will decide on Friday whether to hear a challenge by an Occupy protester against an injunction authorising the clearance of barricades at a section of Argyle Street in Mong Kok.
• Syed Kemal Shah Bokhary, a senior Hong Kong judge has broken his silence over the ongoing street protests, in support of the students saying that they are the future of Hong Kong.
• The Canadian House of Commons has adopted a motion in support of the current Hong Kong protests.
• Online rumours are circulating particularly from the HKGolden internet forum that racidal activists will destroy the main stage in Admiralty tomorrow. The HKGolden forum is where some of the racial activists shared ideas of occupying the areas where violence broke out yesterday morning.
• A gang leader in Hong Kong has admitted that 'triad' members have been paid to interfere and disrupt the students in the Occupy protests.

Chinese characters 我要真普選 meaning "I want genuine universal suffrage" written next to a drawing of Lion Rock on a yellow umbrella. Picture Source: @hkdemonow/Twitter

傘革命/運動在香港的54天。（星期四2014年11月20日）

• 最新的香港大學民意調查發現，18-29歲58％認為佔領抗議活動應該結束。也只有約香港人的三分之一繼續支持大多數針對職業的抗議。
• 混戰已經打破了圍繞在金鐘主舞台與增加不同意見被呈現給公眾。
• 幾個人都有關，與立法會門/窗的斷裂正好暴力被逮捕。警方指控在警察行收費的嫌疑。
• 黎智英，店主蘋果日報（親deomocratic營）說，示威者應該撤退，從目前的抗議，重新煥發活力，並稍後再回來。
  
• 學生聯會已拒絕該邀請作證，在美國國會 委員會不怕外國干涉指責為美國參議員試圖推出“香港人權與民主法案”。
• 上訴法院將決定週五是否聽到了反對的禁令授權路障的間隙，在亞皆老街旺角一段的示威者佔據一個挑戰。
• 賽義德·凱末爾·沙阿包致金法官， 資深香港法官打破他的沉默在持續的街頭抗議活動，支持學生說，他們是香港的未來。
• 加拿大下議院已通過了一項支持目前香港的抗議運動。
• 網上的傳言是 從HKGolden互聯網論壇，racidal積極分子會破壞在金鐘的主舞台，明天特別是循環  。該HKGolden論壇裡的一些種族活動家共同佔據的地方昨天上午發生了暴力事件的區域觀念。
• 香港黑幫頭目也承認，“黑社會”成員已經支付干擾和破壞學生佔領抗議活動。