• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Beijing inserted candidates into the local elections, won power and passed sweeping National Security laws which allowed for mass arrests and the breaking up of pro-democracy institutions. The key people in the movement were jailed. New laws, mass arrests and detainment effectively ended protests.

    TL;DR: it was crushed.