Protests took place in Hong Kong over the New Year’s, with police firing tear gas and water cannons shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, and a march yesterday, New Year’s Day, that drew over 1.03 million attendees according to organizers...
Clashes between protestors and police took place again in Hong Kong over the last few days, with demonstrations over Christmas coming under assault from riot police...
Police violence against protestors again took place in Hong Kong yesterday. Police violence yesterday took place after protest activities in shopping malls, billed as a form of Christmas shopping, and memorial activities for Marco Leung, who is viewed as the first protestor to die connected to the movement...
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Hong Kong yesterday to commemorate what has now been now six months of protest. Organizers claim that 800,000 were in attendance during the march yesterday...
Protests in Hong Kong continued over the weekend and in the past week, putting an end what some saw as a period of relative calm following District Council elections on November 24th...
Hongkongers voted in record numbers yesterday for District Council elections. The results of voting showed an overwhelming victory for pro-democratic political forces...
The Taiwanese pro-unification’s left response to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong has been telling. Either one ignores the present events as though protests had not rocked Hong Kong for now close to half a year. Or, worse, some have even seen to fit to lash out at the protests, simply because they challenge the Chinese Communist Party...
Demonstrators have now been trapped within the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, surrounded by police and with exits to the university sealed, for over 48 hours now. Those still trapped in the university face the threat of eventually running out of supplies, such as food and water. It is also thought that many of those remaining are injured after weathering many hours of police assaults...
Demonstrators continue to be trapped in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with police still refusing to allow hundreds of demonstrators to leave the university. It is thought that there are five hundred to six hundred individuals still trapped at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 60% to 70% are thought to be students from the university and reportedly, some of those trapped inside on the campus are as young as 11 or 12 years old...
