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Added on the 12/11/2019 08:34:05 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Student protesters at Hong Kong Polytechnic University build barricades and mini Stonehenge-like structures using bricks on roads as they aim to hamper any potential battles with police on Thursday. Some bring bows and arrows, while others are busy preparing logistical and food supplies in the campus halls. IMAGES
A group of student protesters, covered in blankets, are huddled together and getting assistance from paramedics inside the besieged Hong Kong Polytechnic University as they wait to be be brought out. The campus has become the epicentre for the battle between anti-government student demonstrators and riot police in recent days. IMAGES
Several thousand demonstrators march in Hong Kong -- defying authorities a year after huge pro-democracy protests erupted -- as the movement struggles in the face of arrests, coronavirus bans on crowds and a looming national security law. IMAGES
Protesters are cordoned off by police in Hong Kong as small scale protests erupt ahead of a debate in the legislature over a law that bans insulting China's national anthem. IMAGES
Hong Kong police fire pepper ball rounds at protesters in the city's commercial district ahead of a debate in the legislature over a law that bans insulting China's national anthem. A few hundred protesters chanted slogans during a lunchtime rally in the city's Central district but dispersed when officers fired multiple rounds of irritant-filled pellets, AFP reporters on the scene said. IMAGES
Plainclothes police officers baton-charge protesters in a Hong Kong shopping mall. Major shopping centres have become regular protest venues with demonstrators attempting to disrupt the economy in their push for greater democratic freedoms and police accountability. IMAGES