From Hong Kong to India: Images from the frontlines of global protests

Protests swept the globe in 2019, with millions of people taking to the streets from Catalonia to Colombia, and Haiti to Hong Kong. In pic: For over a week, India has witnessed widespread protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), especially in combination with the proposed all-India National Register of Citizens (NRC). (Express photo)

Summer has turned to winter in Hong Kong, where demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill turned into to a push for greater democracy. The Beijing-backed government has refused to yield, while the protesters have gathered out in vast numbers, turning shopping districts into a sea of black-clad people. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times)

Chile has been roiled by continuing and sometimes violent street protests since Oct. 18, when a student protest over a modest increase in subway fares turned into a much larger and broader movement with a long list of demands that largely focus on inequality. (AP)

Colombia’s recent wave of demonstrations began with a massive strike on Nov. 21 that drew an estimated 250,000 people to the streets. Protests have continued in the days since but at a much smaller scale. (AP)

Members of Algeria's governing elite hope Tebboune helps the country turn the page on 10 months of peaceful but persistent protests that have threatened their legitimacy and stalled the economy. Many protesters reject Tebboune as part of a discredited elite, and want a new political system instead. (AP)

Protesters chant slogans during ongoing protests against the Lebanese political class, as riot police block a road leading to the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon. Protesters have been holding demonstrations since Oct. 17 demanding an end to widespread corruption and mismanagement by the political class that has ruled the country for three decades. (AP)

In pic: People run away to protect themselves from police officers while cars burn in the garage of the Royal Oasis hotel during a protest over the cost of fuel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti's economy, already fragile when the new round of protests began in mid-Sept., is in deep trouble with spiraling inflation and dwindling supplies, including fuel. (AP)