Protests Reignite in Hong Kong Over Beijing’s Security Measure

HONG KONG—Riot police fired tear fuel and water cannon as protesters defied social-distancing guidelines to return to the streets and vent anger at Beijing’s approach to quickly impose countrywide-stability legislation in the metropolis.

A crowd of primarily young people began accumulating Sunday at lunchtime in the shopping district of Causeway Bay, heeding phone calls on the internet to ramp up demonstrations against China’s ruling Communist Party immediately after a monthslong lull for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.