Hong Kong university protesters defy surrender warnings

SUPPORT. People hold placards and mobile phones as they gather to pray for the students who are barricaded inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University at Salisbury garden in Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong on November 19, 2019. Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP

The siege at PolyU began Sunday, November 17, with many hundreds of protesters occupying the campus as part of a broader campaign of massive disruption across Hong Kong that began last week. Some protesters escaped overnight on Monday, November 18, by shinning down ropes from a footbridge to a road, where they were whisked away on motorbikes.In an apparently co-ordinated effort to distract police, tens of thousands of people streamed towards the PolyU campus on Monday night as clashes simultaneously raged with police in nearby Kowloon district.Footage on Monday showed armored police beating fallen protesters with batons as they lay on the ground.

"They have to stop violence, give up the weapons and come out peacefully and take the instructions from the police," she said. But their numbers were dwindling. AFP reporters on site estimated up to 100 remained by late afternoon. The warning came as it condemned a decision by the city's high court on Monday to overturn a ban on face masks worn by pro-democracy protesters.

We're rooting for you, Hong Kong! 5DemandsNot1Less

These people have more balls than the ones people here voted to run the country.

Destroying their own country.. China's just probably laughing from afar watching them self destruct... 😅

Send peace and love, there is only one way to do this now

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