HONG KONG—Hundreds of hundreds of people today voted in primaries held by the city’s professional-democracy camp above the weekend, reflecting steely assist for the movement in spite of Beijing’s imposition of a countrywide-security legislation that has curbed community expressions of dissent in recent weeks.
Pro-democracy parties held the primaries, which aren’t formally section of the city’s political process, to settle on candidates and stay clear of splitting the vote going into legislative elections this September. They hope to safe plenty of votes to wield a lot more…