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Hong Kong, Apr 10 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Jerome Favre).- Hong Kong residents paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, who died Friday at the age of 99. Some people gathered Saturday outside the British consulate in Hong Kong to lay flowers in his honour. FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE PAYING TRIBUTE TO PRINCE PHILIP OUTSIDE THE BRITISH CONSULATE IN HONG KONG.
The United States denounces China's approval of sweeping changes to Hong Kong's electoral system, saying Beijing was stifling democracy in the financial capital. The rubber-stamp parliament's move is "a direct attack on Hong Kong's economy, its freedoms and democratic processes," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam condemns the "extreme use of violence" in the storming of the city's parliament, after thousands of protesters ransacked the assembly in an unprecedented display of defiance on the anniversary of the territory's handover to China. SOUNDBITE
The US says it is "alarmed" after Hong Kong legislators fast-tracked a new national security law that introduces penalties such as life imprisonment for crimes related to treason and insurrection, and up to 20 years in jail for the theft of state secrets. "We believe that these kinds of actions have the potential to accelerate the closing of Hong Kong’s once open society," US Department of State deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel tells reporters during a press briefing. SOUNDBITE
Images of police and journalists outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building, where Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is due to stand trial in the Chinese city on national security charges that could see him jailed for life. IMAGES
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