Eight arrested as Hong Kong protesters besiege Mong Kok police station
Angry protesters confront officers after taking part in demonstration against 2017 reform plans
An angry mob besieged Mong Kok police station and set up barriers to block a main road outside the building in an overnight protest triggered by the police use of pepper spray to disperse crowds at an earlier demonstration against the government's political reform package.
A taxi which got stuck in traffic because of the road blockade was reportedly damaged by the mob during the overnight fracas. The protesters also allegedly threw a plastic water bottle at a TVB press car and shouted verbal abuse at the driver.
It was the most violent anti-government protest since the spate of so-called shopping protests petered out earlier this year in the wake of the Occupy sit-ins.
A total of eight men, aged 27 to 68, were arrested during the six-hour protest. One of those arrested is understood to be mainland activist Wang Dengyao, who was detained after failing to produce an identity document.
Wang, who claimed he had taken part in the 1989 democracy movement in Beijing, was also arrested in Hong Kong last December for taking part in the Occupy protests.
It is understood that he has since continued protesting, staying in a makeshift tent outside the government headquarters in Admiralty.