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Hong Kong condemns attack on justice secretary as protests paralyse city for fifth day
A protester unleashes an arrow while standing on a barricaded street outside The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong on Nov 15, 2019. (Photo: ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)
15 Nov 2019 02:45PM
(Updated: 15 Nov 2019 02:50PM)
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HONG KONG: The Chinese and Hong Kong governments condemned on Friday (Nov 15) an attack by a "violent mob" on the city's justice secretary in London, the first direct altercation between demonstrators and a government minister during months of often violent protests.
Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng, who was in London to promote Hong Kong as a dispute resolution and deal-making hub, was targeted by a group of protesters who shouted "murderer" and "shameful".
READ: Authority to direct curfew orders rests with Carrie Lam, say Hong Kong police amid rumours
A statement by the Hong Kong government said Cheng suffered "serious bodily harm" but gave no details. Video footage of the incident showed Cheng falling to the ground.
The Chinese embassy in the UK said Cheng was pushed to the ground and sustained a hand injury.
"(Cheng) was besieged and attacked by dozens of anti-China and pro-independence activists," the Chinese embassy said in a statement. The incident showed that the "violent and lawless perpetrators" were now taking their violence abroad, it said.
China has lodged a formal complaint with Britain and urged British authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam also strongly condemned the attack.
The former British colony's government said in a separate statement: "The secretary denounces all forms of violence and radicalism depriving others' legitimate rights in the pretext of pursuing their political ideals, which would never be in the interest of Hong Kong and any civilised society."
The incident came amid escalating violence in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, where a student protester died earlier this month after falling from a parking lot during demonstrations.
A 70-year-old street cleaner, who videos on social media showed had been hit in the head by a brick thrown by "masked rioters", died on Thursday, authorities said.
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department expressed profound sadness on Friday at the death of its cleaning worker and said it was providing assistance to his family.
Anti-government protesters paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fifth day on Friday, forcing schools to close and blocking some highways as students built barricades in university campuses and authorities struggled to tame the violence.
A man (C) walks through bricks placed on a barricaded street outside The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong on Nov 15, 2019. (Photo: ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)READ: Hong Kong protesters threaten 'one country, two systems' principle: President Xi
Protesters used barriers and other debris to block the Cross-Harbour Tunnel that links Hong Kong island to Kowloon district, leading to severe traffic congestion. The government once again urged employers to adopt flexible working arrangements amid the chaos.
Some commuters working near the area said they have to take alternative route and expected some delay in the morning, but the situation was relatively calm.
Thousands of students remain hunkered down at several universities, surrounded by piles of food, bricks, petrol bombs, catapults and other homemade weapons. Hong Kong students fortified security in a university by setting up roadblocks and bag checks.
Flash mobs again protested at lunch time in the heart of the financial hub and also in the eastern district of Tai Koo, where office workers wearing now-banned face masks chanted "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time".
According to social media posts, King's Road in Hong Kong was packed with protesters on Friday afternoon.
Outside Wong Chuk Hang MTR station, protesters were said to be setting up roadblocks on Friday afternoon, according to Twitter.
"Things that happened in these few months have made people heartbroken," said a 31-year-old office assistant who gave her name as Nicole.
"The government only came out to condemn rioters ... They have never thought why so many rioters have emerged in our city and why ordinary citizens support them," she said.
Protesters in Hong Kong during lunch time on Nov 15, 2019.Protesters in Hong Kong during lunch time on Nov 15, 2019.
Police said the prestigious Chinese University had "become a manufacturing base for petrol bombs" and the students' actions were "another step closer to terrorism".
Around 4,000 people, aged between 12 and 83, have been arrested since the unrest escalated in June.
The demonstrations have paralysed parts of the city and battered the retail and tourism sectors, with widespread disruptions across the financial centre and no end in sight to the violence and vandalism.
Video footage of the Chinese People's Liberation Army garrison headquarters near Hong Kong's Central business district on Friday showed more than a dozen troops conducting what appeared to be anti-riot drills against fake protesters carrying black umbrellas.
A protester unleashes an arrow while standing on a barricaded street outside The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong on Nov 15, 2019. (Photo: ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)
15 Nov 2019 02:45PM
(Updated: 15 Nov 2019 02:50PM)
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HONG KONG: The Chinese and Hong Kong governments condemned on Friday (Nov 15) an attack by a "violent mob" on the city's justice secretary in London, the first direct altercation between demonstrators and a government minister during months of often violent protests.
Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng, who was in London to promote Hong Kong as a dispute resolution and deal-making hub, was targeted by a group of protesters who shouted "murderer" and "shameful".
READ: Authority to direct curfew orders rests with Carrie Lam, say Hong Kong police amid rumours
A statement by the Hong Kong government said Cheng suffered "serious bodily harm" but gave no details. Video footage of the incident showed Cheng falling to the ground.
The Chinese embassy in the UK said Cheng was pushed to the ground and sustained a hand injury.
"(Cheng) was besieged and attacked by dozens of anti-China and pro-independence activists," the Chinese embassy said in a statement. The incident showed that the "violent and lawless perpetrators" were now taking their violence abroad, it said.
China has lodged a formal complaint with Britain and urged British authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam also strongly condemned the attack.
The former British colony's government said in a separate statement: "The secretary denounces all forms of violence and radicalism depriving others' legitimate rights in the pretext of pursuing their political ideals, which would never be in the interest of Hong Kong and any civilised society."
The incident came amid escalating violence in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, where a student protester died earlier this month after falling from a parking lot during demonstrations.
A 70-year-old street cleaner, who videos on social media showed had been hit in the head by a brick thrown by "masked rioters", died on Thursday, authorities said.
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department expressed profound sadness on Friday at the death of its cleaning worker and said it was providing assistance to his family.
Anti-government protesters paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fifth day on Friday, forcing schools to close and blocking some highways as students built barricades in university campuses and authorities struggled to tame the violence.
A man (C) walks through bricks placed on a barricaded street outside The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong on Nov 15, 2019. (Photo: ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)READ: Hong Kong protesters threaten 'one country, two systems' principle: President Xi
Protesters used barriers and other debris to block the Cross-Harbour Tunnel that links Hong Kong island to Kowloon district, leading to severe traffic congestion. The government once again urged employers to adopt flexible working arrangements amid the chaos.
Some commuters working near the area said they have to take alternative route and expected some delay in the morning, but the situation was relatively calm.
Thousands of students remain hunkered down at several universities, surrounded by piles of food, bricks, petrol bombs, catapults and other homemade weapons. Hong Kong students fortified security in a university by setting up roadblocks and bag checks.
Flash mobs again protested at lunch time in the heart of the financial hub and also in the eastern district of Tai Koo, where office workers wearing now-banned face masks chanted "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time".
According to social media posts, King's Road in Hong Kong was packed with protesters on Friday afternoon.
Outside Wong Chuk Hang MTR station, protesters were said to be setting up roadblocks on Friday afternoon, according to Twitter.
"Things that happened in these few months have made people heartbroken," said a 31-year-old office assistant who gave her name as Nicole.
"The government only came out to condemn rioters ... They have never thought why so many rioters have emerged in our city and why ordinary citizens support them," she said.
Protesters in Hong Kong during lunch time on Nov 15, 2019.Protesters in Hong Kong during lunch time on Nov 15, 2019.
Police said the prestigious Chinese University had "become a manufacturing base for petrol bombs" and the students' actions were "another step closer to terrorism".
Around 4,000 people, aged between 12 and 83, have been arrested since the unrest escalated in June.
The demonstrations have paralysed parts of the city and battered the retail and tourism sectors, with widespread disruptions across the financial centre and no end in sight to the violence and vandalism.
Video footage of the Chinese People's Liberation Army garrison headquarters near Hong Kong's Central business district on Friday showed more than a dozen troops conducting what appeared to be anti-riot drills against fake protesters carrying black umbrellas.
there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel- the momentum is gathering, small groups of average joes are clearing the streets as soon as the protestors messed it up with bricks.
Like in SAF where they firm a divison of garbage collectors and cleaners.
What is it call?
Where they follow up move in to the war front after the battle is over. Then nothing goes to waste salvage what cam be recycled or repaired and put back into the logistic to reuse.
I was in this division in my reservist.
Clever SAF... nothing goes to waste, then cut up fresh deadly soldiers dismantle their organs for sale or reused...
What is it call?
Where they follow up move in to the war front after the battle is over. Then nothing goes to waste salvage what cam be recycled or repaired and put back into the logistic to reuse.
I was in this division in my reservist.
Clever SAF... nothing goes to waste, then cut up fresh deadly soldiers dismantle their organs for sale or reused...
HK still got hope...
十六字诀是“敌进我退，敌驻我扰，敌疲我打，敌退我追”.
The above the essence of resistance to superior forces aka government forces. The university students shd have learned about it in their history lesson. They successfully conducted their protest movement in accordance to the above but now they could be making a fatal mistake by defending the university campus.
The hk mata had been in constant operation since the beginning of the protest, morale low, exhaustion and unhappiness affected the whole force. The rioters decision to defend the campus given mata a breather and limit the scale of operations.
Endgame not going to be pretty but shd come soon if hk govt has half a brain.
The above the essence of resistance to superior forces aka government forces. The university students shd have learned about it in their history lesson. They successfully conducted their protest movement in accordance to the above but now they could be making a fatal mistake by defending the university campus.
The hk mata had been in constant operation since the beginning of the protest, morale low, exhaustion and unhappiness affected the whole force. The rioters decision to defend the campus given mata a breather and limit the scale of operations.
Endgame not going to be pretty but shd come soon if hk govt has half a brain.
The rioters are doing this- 置之于死地而后生。In this “war of attrition”, Carrie Lam will win in the end, the rioters are forcing the HK police to undertake a crackdown of sort so they can continue to garner support from the general public which they are losing currently.
While majority of the HKers support the protests, the violence is turning people off.
It will come to pass Rioters cannot play hike and seek and looking for deployment areas to re-group, logistics, water and cooking training and sex...
But it is mistake to hold playground when u are a weak groups against gov.
Now police can take their time planning to cause distrubances and chaos to the playground.
Lets watch how this 三国演义 drama is going to unfold and end...
But it is mistake to hold playground when u are a weak groups against gov.
Now police can take their time planning to cause distrubances and chaos to the playground.
Lets watch how this 三国演义 drama is going to unfold and end...
死地而後生 don’t work this way. 兔子逼急了會咬人。圍而不打，斷水斷電，招降納叛才是上策。without power, mobile phone won’t work. Most important must prevent supplies from getting in, prevent reporters from getting in too. Anyone who leave be given a free pass. These people can settle later. As long the siege is conducted properly, give it a week, most will given up.
英雄所见略同。I suspect 11 hasn’t given the nod, Carrie is just the perfect civil servant. Teehee...
No electricity no mobile phone. Another factor that will make life unbearable is no water flush toilet. All these city folks never experienced outhouse and don’t say dig a hole on the ground to relieve. Field toilets not just find a place to dig holes, also must make sure don’t cause disease to outbreak. It will be quite an experience for them.
Hong Kong protesters try to break out of besieged university after a night of fighting with police
Updated 38 minutes ago
PHOTO Polytechnic University has been the site of fierce clashes between protesters and police units. REUTERS: TYRONE SIU
Hong Kong police have fired tear gas at protesters trying to escape a besieged university after a night of clashes, while hundreds more pro-democracy activists stayed inside armed with petrol bombs and other weapons awaiting an expected operation to oust them.
The bloody standoff between security forces and activists at Polytechnic University entered its second day after a night of mayhem in which a police van was set alight and a police officer was shot with an arrow.
Groups of masked protesters tried to leave the campus, but were quickly met by rounds of tear gas fired by police at several entrances.
Some managed to escape, while dozens were arrested by police, local media reported.
Witnesses saw some protesters suffer burns from chemicals in the jets fired from police water cannons, according to Reuters.
PHOTO Police warned they were ready to use live bullets if protesters continued to use lethal weapons. REUTERS: TYRONE SIUPolice tried to storm campus
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Video 1:17
Violent scenes outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
ABC News
Overnight, police tried to enter the university but were forced back by protesters who set huge fires.
ABC China correspondent Bill Birtles was at the scene and described what he saw as "all hell is breaking loose".
"The police Raptors — the special tactical forces — I saw them race past the no-man's land through the protest line, and they're firing a tremendous amount of tear gas," he told ABC Radio National.
"Police earlier in the night said they may resort to live rounds if protesters continued to throw fire bombs at them, and so this is what everybody is really concerned about."
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Video 2:35
Bill Birtles saw police storming the entrance to the university in a "tremendously brutal" operation.
ABC News
After the clashes, Hong Kong Polytechnic University president Jin-Guang Teng said police would allow protesters to leave the campus, and that he would accompany them to the police station to ensure their cases, "will be fairly processed".
He said in a recorded video message that he hoped protesters would "accept the proposed temporary suspension of force and leave the campus in a peaceful manner".
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Video 1:09
Hong Kong Polytechnic University's president claimed police would allow protesters to leave his campus.
ABC News
It seemed unlikely the protesters would accept the offer, given they would all likely be arrested.
However a few hundred streamed out of the campus at about 8:15am (local time), only to be driven back by police tear gas.
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Video 0:42
Police lobbed tear gas at protesters attempting to leave the university.
ABC News
Others, who were wearing gas masks and picked up the smoking tear gas canisters to drop them into heavy-duty bags, retreated in the face of officers who had lined up across the road in the distance.
These latest clashes follow an incident where a Hong Kong police officer was admitted to hospital after being shot in the leg by an arrow on Sunday afternoon.
Police action breaks a week-long demonstration
The Polytechnic University protesters had been blocking one of Hong Kong's major highways, the Cross Harbour Tunnel linking Hong Kong island to the Kowloon peninsula, for much of the past week.
Escalating violence between anti-government protesters and police in the former British colony has been condemned by Beijing and the city's Beijing-backed leaders.
In a statement, police warned rioters to stop using lethal weapons to attack officers and to halt other acts of violence, saying officers would respond with force and possibly live bullets if necessary.
The spectre of a bloodier stand-off has caused some international concern.
Former British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind said in a statement: "Hong Kong's Chief Executive has the responsibility to do everything possible to prevent a massacre. She must order the police to use restraint."
'We are fighting for Hong Kong'
PHOTO Protesters are seen using a make-shift catapult during unrest in Hong Kong. ABC: STEVE WANG
Hong Kong's protests have been running for months, triggered after the Government attempted to push through a controversial extradition bill that would have allowed China to detain dissidents in Hong Kong and try them in mainland courts.
While the bill has since been canned, the protests have focused on Beijing's alleged interference in the city's partial autonomy — guaranteed by China for a period of 50 years after Britain handed back the territory in 1997.
PHOTO Multiple fires erupted on the university's perimeter. ABC NEWS: JAKE LAPHAM
This autonomy gives Hongkongers capitalism, common law, and personal freedoms not found in mainland China.
Today, protesters continued pressing for other formal demands to the city's Government, which includes the retraction of the word "riot" to describe rallies, the release of all detained demonstrators, an independent inquiry into perceived police brutality, and universal suffrage.
"The protesters have been reacting to the police," said Joris, 23, a civil engineer who like others did not give his full name.
ABC/wires
Updated 38 minutes ago
Hong Kong police have fired tear gas at protesters trying to escape a besieged university after a night of clashes, while hundreds more pro-democracy activists stayed inside armed with petrol bombs and other weapons awaiting an expected operation to oust them.
The bloody standoff between security forces and activists at Polytechnic University entered its second day after a night of mayhem in which a police van was set alight and a police officer was shot with an arrow.
Groups of masked protesters tried to leave the campus, but were quickly met by rounds of tear gas fired by police at several entrances.
Some managed to escape, while dozens were arrested by police, local media reported.
Witnesses saw some protesters suffer burns from chemicals in the jets fired from police water cannons, according to Reuters.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
Video 1:17
Violent scenes outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
ABC News
Overnight, police tried to enter the university but were forced back by protesters who set huge fires.
ABC China correspondent Bill Birtles was at the scene and described what he saw as "all hell is breaking loose".
"The police Raptors — the special tactical forces — I saw them race past the no-man's land through the protest line, and they're firing a tremendous amount of tear gas," he told ABC Radio National.
"Police earlier in the night said they may resort to live rounds if protesters continued to throw fire bombs at them, and so this is what everybody is really concerned about."
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
Video 2:35
Bill Birtles saw police storming the entrance to the university in a "tremendously brutal" operation.
ABC News
After the clashes, Hong Kong Polytechnic University president Jin-Guang Teng said police would allow protesters to leave the campus, and that he would accompany them to the police station to ensure their cases, "will be fairly processed".
He said in a recorded video message that he hoped protesters would "accept the proposed temporary suspension of force and leave the campus in a peaceful manner".
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
Video 1:09
Hong Kong Polytechnic University's president claimed police would allow protesters to leave his campus.
ABC News
It seemed unlikely the protesters would accept the offer, given they would all likely be arrested.
However a few hundred streamed out of the campus at about 8:15am (local time), only to be driven back by police tear gas.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
Video 0:42
Police lobbed tear gas at protesters attempting to leave the university.
ABC News
Others, who were wearing gas masks and picked up the smoking tear gas canisters to drop them into heavy-duty bags, retreated in the face of officers who had lined up across the road in the distance.
These latest clashes follow an incident where a Hong Kong police officer was admitted to hospital after being shot in the leg by an arrow on Sunday afternoon.
Police action breaks a week-long demonstration
The Polytechnic University protesters had been blocking one of Hong Kong's major highways, the Cross Harbour Tunnel linking Hong Kong island to the Kowloon peninsula, for much of the past week.
Escalating violence between anti-government protesters and police in the former British colony has been condemned by Beijing and the city's Beijing-backed leaders.
In a statement, police warned rioters to stop using lethal weapons to attack officers and to halt other acts of violence, saying officers would respond with force and possibly live bullets if necessary.
The spectre of a bloodier stand-off has caused some international concern.
Former British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind said in a statement: "Hong Kong's Chief Executive has the responsibility to do everything possible to prevent a massacre. She must order the police to use restraint."
'We are fighting for Hong Kong'
Hong Kong's protests have been running for months, triggered after the Government attempted to push through a controversial extradition bill that would have allowed China to detain dissidents in Hong Kong and try them in mainland courts.
While the bill has since been canned, the protests have focused on Beijing's alleged interference in the city's partial autonomy — guaranteed by China for a period of 50 years after Britain handed back the territory in 1997.
This autonomy gives Hongkongers capitalism, common law, and personal freedoms not found in mainland China.
Today, protesters continued pressing for other formal demands to the city's Government, which includes the retraction of the word "riot" to describe rallies, the release of all detained demonstrators, an independent inquiry into perceived police brutality, and universal suffrage.
"The protesters have been reacting to the police," said Joris, 23, a civil engineer who like others did not give his full name.
Beijing denies interfering in Hong Kong's affairs and has blamed foreign influences for the unrest.
ABC/wires
Please dunch lock them up. I rather they roam freely and turn hongkanland into a Cowboy Town.
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