Chanting slogans like “Shame, U.S. government,” demonstrators marched from a downtown park to the United States Consulate nearby to urge that Edward J. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor accused of leaking documents about United States surveillance programs, be allowed to remain in Hong Kong and protected from American law enforcement officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/demonstrators-march-for-snowden-in-hong-kong.html?hp Saturday’s march was organized by more than two dozen groups advocating free speech, democracy and personal liberties on the Internet. Many of the groups, including the Democratic Party of Hong Kong, have long been outspoken critics of Beijing for restricting individual liberties.

“He should be given the right to stay in Hong Kong,” Albert Ho, a former chairman of the Democratic Party, said in a speech at the start of the rally. “We must not let anybody intervene — we must be able to show that Hong Kong will not give in to pressure from other governments.”
“Snowden is being persecuted by a huge institution,” the United States government, said Marcus Ho, a retiree who said that he seldom attended rallies. “We must do something to help.”