Although the momentous civil disobedience movement has attracted international attention, Leung made no mention of the Umbrella Movement in his policy address or showed any signs that he was troubled by it.

Joshua Wong is one of the most prominent faces of the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement—a mass protest lasting two-and-a-half months, where young people stood up for freedom in Hong Kong in the face of mainland Chinese encroachment.

Nevertheless, the election results will be an indication of how much Hong Kong people's political awareness and aspirations have changed one year after the Umbrella Movement for democracy.

World-renowned Hong Kong celebrities like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Chow Yun-fat and singer-actor Andy Lau have been blacklisted for openly supporting the Umbrella Movement.

During the Umbrella Movement, Tsang became famous after seven plainclothes policemen dragged him to a dark corner and assaulted him.

However, after the Umbrella Movement for democracy, Beijing must realize that Hong Kong people have clearly spelled out their demand for a truly democratic system.

(Zhang Xiaohong/The Epoch Times) A symbolic image reminiscent of the days during the 2014 Umbrella Movement is making a reappearance in Hong Kong.

[The Hong Kong government has circulated the results of a petition claiming to show disapproval in Hong Kong for the Umbrella Movement. The students have said the petition had many fake signatures.]

After Hong Kong police wielded batons and fired tear gas to disperse the huge crowd in Admiralty, who used umbrellas as shields, tens of thousands of Hongkongers streamed into the streets, marking the start of the Umbrella Movement.  

He was due to give a talk at Chulalongkorn University about lessons from Hong Kong's "Umbrella Movement" protests as part of Oct. 6 commemorations of a Thai government crackdown on student demonstrators 40 years ago.

Hong Kong film superstar Chow Yun-fat has once again voiced his opinion about the Umbrella Movement.

(Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images) The Umbrella Movement is an act of civil disobedience, and its occupation of the streets is illegal.

The model has been viewed by a majority of Taiwan society as a failed model after Hong Kong’s Umbrella pro-democracy movement in 2014. The controversial model has resulted in much debate.

As Mong Kok is the most volatile of the three protest sites — some protesters claim that it is an "Umbrella Revolution" and not an "Umbrella Movement" there — police are anticipating protesters there to offer more resistance than the Admiralty crowd,

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Saxophonist Kenny G deleted a picture of himself at an Occupy protests site in Hong Kong during the height of the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in October last year.

The UGL incident started on Oct 5, 2014 during the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement for democracy. Australian Fairfax Media correspondent John Garnaut unexpectedly received a copy of the contract agreement between Leung and UGL from an anonymous person.

The Hong Kong Federation of Students has had the highest profile role in representing the anarchic but peaceful Umbrella Movement that has taken over key roads in calls for greater democracy.

Movement" street occupation in 2014; and Leung has been vocally critical of "Hong Kong independence," a stance that seemed to overly hype the threat of an ideology that enjoys little public support.

The student-led Umbrella Movement are demanding full democracy for the city's 2017 Chief Executive elections and for incumbent Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's resignation.

International media dubbed the Hong Kong protests the Umbrella Movement after demonstrators opened umbrellas to shield themselves from tear gas and police batons on Sept. 28.

Movement" to show support for, well, the Umbrella Movement.

Likewise, the Hong Kong government should not have glossed over the "deficiencies of the NPCSC decision and the underlying discontent by repeating the official classification that the (Umbrella) Movement was 'unlawful.'"

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Chinese University of Hong Kong's Professor Lee Lap-fung said the CUHK survey results show that Hong Kong residents are consistent in their view of the Umbrella Movement, but don't agree with the overall strategy.

Later the pair worked on episodes dealing with more serious topics such as Taiwan's sunflower movement where students occupied parliament and most recently Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement.

The former British colony just endured a 79-day long street occupation by the student-led Umbrella Movement, with protesters demanding genuine universal suffrage for the 2017 Hong Kong chief executive elections.

(Matthew Robertson/Epoch Times) The "Umbrella Movement," as it has come to be called, is a grassroots social movement calling for greater democracy in Hong Kong—specifically, the right for Hong Kong people to freely elect their chief executive, free of

Those Umbrella Movement student protesters do know how to turn down unwanted interviews with some panache.