HONG KONG: Protesters gathered in Hong Kong Wednesday calling for universal suffrage and an end to arrests of activists in China as a top Beijing official visits the city.

The three-day trip by Zhang Dejiang, who chairs China’s communist-controlled legislature, is the first by such a senior official in four years and comes as concerns grow that freedoms are under threat in the semi-autonomous city.

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