More than 600,000 vote in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy primaries

Hong Kong Election

Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers turned out over the weekend to vote in an unofficial two-day primary election held by the city’s pro-democracy camp as it gears up to field candidates for a forthcoming legislative poll.

The exercise is being held two weeks after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the semi-autonomous territory in a move widely seen as chipping away at the “one country, two systems” framework under which Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997.