Thousands of anti-government protesters raced through the streets last Sunday as they engaged in cat-and-mouse tactics with the police.
‘s businesses and underground rail stations re-opened as usual on Monday morning, after a chaotic Sunday that saw police fire water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who blocked roads and threw petrol bombs outside government headquarters.
Police issued a statement early on Monday expressing “severe condemnation” after what began as a mostly peaceful protest had spiraled into violence in some of the Chinese territory’s key business, shopping and tourist districts. The demonstrations were the latest in over three months of sometimes violent protests, with protesters angered by what they see as creeping interference by Beijing in‘s affairs despite promises by Beijing to grant the city wide-ranging autonomy and freedoms denied in mainland China.
At least 18 people were injured, three of them seriously, during Sunday’s violence, according to the Hospital Authority.
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