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		</div><p>More than 280 people have been arrested at protests against the government’s decision to postpone elections for Hong Kong’s legislature.</p>
<p>The elections were to have taken place on Sunday but Chief Executive Carrie Lam on July 31 postponed them for one year.</p>
<p>Ms Lam blamed an upsurge in coronavirus cases, but critics said her government was worried the opposition would gain seats if voting went ahead on schedule.</p>
<p>Police said that 289 people had been arrested, mostly for unlawful assembly.</p>
<p>One woman was arrested in the Kowloon district of Yau Ma Tei on charges of assault and spreading pro-independence slogans, the police department said on its Facebook page.</p>
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<p>It said such slogans are illegal under a newly enacted national security law.</p>
<p>Anti-government protests erupted last year over a proposed extradition law and spread to include demands for greater democracy and criticism of Beijing’s efforts to tighten control over the former British colony.</p>
<p>Coronavirus and the tough new security law have diminished the demonstrations this year, but smaller groups still take to the streets from time to time.</p>
<p>The ruling Communist Party’s decision to impose the law in May prompted complaints it was violating the autonomy promised to the territory when it was returned to China in 1997.</p>
<p>Washington withdrew trading privileges granted to Hong Kong and other governments suspended extradition and other agreements on the grounds that the territory of seven million people is no longer autonomous.</p>
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<p>Also on Sunday, police fired pepper balls at protesters in Kowloon’s Mongkok neighbourhood, the South China Morning Post newspaper reported.</p>
<p>In the nearby Jordan neighbourhood, protesters raised a banner criticising the election delay, the Post said.</p>
<p>“I want my right to vote!” activist Leung Kwok-hung, popularly known as Long Hair, was quoted as saying.</p>
<p>The newspaper said Leung was later arrested.</p>
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