Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched through the streets of Hong Kong in weekend rallies that deteriorated into running clashes as night fell. More here:
HONG KONG - Protest-scarred Hong Kong struggled to recover on Monday after scores of people were arrested in violent clashes overnight and as the last British governor of the Chinese-ruled city warned that people could be killed.
Many protesters, police and journalists have been injured in clashes, with police using rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons against demonstrators, some of whom throw bricks and petrol bombs. The Sunday night protests, the second night of violence since the imposition of colonial-era emergency laws on Friday, saw scores of protesters arrested and the first warning from Chinese military personnel stationed in the territory.Tens of thousands of protesters, many families with children, marched peacefully through the center of Hong Kong on Sunday, wearing face masks in defiance of the emergency powers that threaten them with a maximum of one year in prison for hiding their faces.
“She would have to be crazy to be making these decisions on her own without being pressured into them. The face mask business, absolutely madness,” said Patten, who handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997. The Hong Kong government said in a statement early on Monday, a public holiday in the city, that “public safety has been jeopardized and the public order of the whole city is being pushed to the verge of a very dangerous situation.”
China dismisses such accusations, saying foreign governments, including Britain and the United States, have fanned anti-China sentiment.Hong Kong’s rail operator, MTR Corp, said on Monday that because of “serious vandalism,” most of the stations in the network were temporarily closed. That included typically busy stations such as Admiralty and Wan Chai, around the city’s government offices and bar district.
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