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Added on the 28/11/2019 02:23:46 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Dozens of Hong Kong protesters escape a two-day police siege at a campus by shimmying down a rope from a bridge to awaiting motorbikes in a dramatic and perilous breakout that followed a renewed warning by Beijing of a possible intervention to end the crisis engulfing the city. Clashes rumbled throughout the day between protesters and police who had threatened to use deadly force to dislodge activists holed-up in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). IMAGES
Riot police detain people as tensions remain high the morning after intense weekend clashes near Hong Kong's Polytechnic University. IMAGES
Police use water cannon and fire tear gas outside the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to disperse protesters in Hong Kong. Pro-democracy activists, who are intent on keeping their stronghold on a major tunnel near the university, clashed with police on Sunday morning, vowing to "squeeze the economy" into next week. IMAGES
Hong Kong police fired tear gas on Sunday morning at protesters intent on keeping their stranglehold on a major tunnel as pro-democracy activists vowed to "squeeze the economy" into next week. IMAGES
A woman is taken away by police in Hong Kong on the 34th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown. The woman was stopped by police in the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay while wearing yellow and black clothing and brandishing a card with the words "conscience" in Chinese characters, before she was transported away in a police vehicle. IMAGES