Trouble feared as Hong Kong activists return to scene of triad attack
HONG KONG - Several thousand protesters defied a police ban on Saturday to converge on a rural Hong Kong town where suspected triad gangsters attacked protesters and commuters at a train station last weekend.
But activists insisted they would push ahead and by 3.30 pm several thousand had gathered in sweltering heat, many chanting anti-police slogans such as “black police” and “know the law, break the law.” They attacked black-clad protesters returning from Hong Kong island, passers-by, journalists and lawmakers with pipes and clubs, leaving 45 people injured.
The protests, considered the most direct challenge to the authority of China’s President Xi Jinping, further mushroomed on Friday as thousands of activists thronged the arrivals halls of Hong Kong international airport.
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