HONG KONG: Flights resumed at Hong Kong airport a day after a massive pro-democracy rally there forced the shutdown of the busy international ...
More than 250 flights were cancelled at the world's eighth-busiest airport, which handles around 200,000 passengers a day.
The city's transport chief Frank Chan said on Monday that Hong Kong would pay a"heavy price" for the airport's closure. The protesters adopted the slogan after a woman suffered a serious facial injury that reportedly caused her to lose the vision in one eye at a demonstration that turned violent on Sunday night.
But the city's Beijing-backed leader has ruled out meeting the protesters' demands, which include the right to choose their next leader and an investigation into alleged police brutality.The demonstrations have become increasingly violent, with police using tear gas and rubber bullets to push back protesters who have sometimes hurled bricks and bottles.
"It is becoming more and more dangerous, but if we don't still come out at this point, our future will become more frightening, and we will lose our freedoms," a 22-year-old protester at the airport told AFP on Monday.The movement has infuriated Beijing, where authorities on Monday slammed violent protesters who threw petrol bombs at police officers, linking them to"terrorism".
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