bloombergphotos:Mong Kok Unoccupied
bloombergphotos: Mong Kok Unoccupied Hong Kong police cleared a key pro-democracy protest site in ninety minutes, detaining student leaders and pushing back demonstrators in the biggest operation in two months. Ranks of police officers stood guard at Nathan Road in the Mong Kok district as cleaners mopped up after initial skirmishes held back the morning removal of makeshift barricades and tents. Student leaders Joshua Wong and Lester Shum were detained. Protesters’ options are shrinking as the police enforce court orders, public support wanes and China refuses to give in to their demands that it allow a free election for the city’s leadership in 2017. An earlier attempt to secure streets in Mong Kok, a densely populated working-class district, failed after demonstrators came back, and the police have vowed to keep roads open this time, setting the stage for clashes this evening when crowds typically swell. “People are angry and confused,” Winnie Wong, a 21-year-old student, said at the site. “There are just the police, with violence to arrest and frighten people.” Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg © 2014 Bloomberg Finance LP -- source link
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