After more than two months of demonstrations in favor of democracy, the police pushed back by force Monday activists who were trying to encircle the seat of power in the former British colony.
A sudden fever which resulted in clashes, many wounded and a wave of arrests of forty advocates.
Present in number and armed with sticks and pepper gas, the police quickly took the ascendancy.
This protester denounced "the attitude of the police. Us, we do not have a weapon. Them, they hurt so many people, we are non-violent unlike them. "
2017 pro-democracy require the election of the Chief Executive by all Hong Kong people. Beijing approved the principle of "one person, one vote" but reserved a predominantly favorable electoral committee to the Chinese Communist Party with the task of screening.
Chinese territory enjoying considerable autonomy, Hong Kong is experiencing its worst political crisis since its return to Beijing in 1997. The authorities do not intend to abdicate and the police received reinforcements forcing protesters to retreat into a mall where new clashes occurred.
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