Hong Kong protesters form human chains to call for democracy

By KELVIN CHAN
HONG KONG — Supporters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement lined city streets and part of the city’s harbor front Friday, inspired by a human chain in a historic Baltic states protest against Soviet control 30 years ago.
Some linked hands while others switched on their smartphone lights and held the phones aloft to create a row of white lights against the nighttime skyline. Organizers hoped the chains, which traced three subway routes, would total 40 kilometers