HONG KONG: Riot police and protesters fought running battles in a Hong Kong shopping mall on Sunday (Jul 14) night as unrest caused by a widely ...
Sunday's clashes took place at the end of another huge rally - this time in Sha Tin, a district that lies between the main urban sprawl around the harbour and the Chinese border.Violence broke out briefly in the afternoon after the rally as protesters seized a junction and built barricades, causing an hours-long stand-off with riot police.
At least one officer was seen knocked unconscious and there was blood on the floor of the mall. Police with shields and batons charged up to higher floors and made multiple arrests in a building filled with luxury fashion stores. Tens of thousands marched through Sha Tin on Sunday, the fifth week in a row that Hong Kong has seen such huge rallies."We have marched so many times but the government still didn't listen, forcing everyone to take to the street," Tony Wong, a 24-year-old protester on the Sha Tin march, told AFP.Many protesters see the rallies as part of an existential fight against an increasingly assertive Beijing.
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