Hong Kong Students Call for Carrie Lam to Recognize Protesters' Five Demands

Students and alumni from King’s College in Hong Kong rallied outside of the school building on the morning of September 5, urging city leader Carrie Lam to recognize five key demands outlined by protesters.

The 200 alumni and 100 pupils were also raising their voices against King’s College management, which was preventing them from using the school’s hall for a class boycott, according to the South China Morning Post.

This footage shows the students and alums in a line that stretches down Bonham Road, in front of the school. They can be heard chanting “Five demands, not one less” – a reference to five key demands that protester representatives echoed the previous night at a press briefing.

The five demands are: completely withdrawing the city’s controversial extradition bill, which would see those accused of crimes possibly extradited to mainland China; setting up an inquiry into police behavior; ceasing to identify the protests as riots; dropping charges against arrested protesters; and implementing universal suffrage.

In a televised and translated video released on September 4, Carrie Lam said a formal motion to withdraw the bill would be initiated in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, and that she would start dialogues between “community leaders, professionals, and academics to independently examine and review society’s deep-seated problems and to advise the government on finding solutions.” She did not concede to the other demands, such as dropping charges against protesters. Credit: Antony Dapiran via Storyful