Riot police use pepper spray to disperse pro-democracy activists inside New Town Plaza mall. Photo: Reuters
Pitched battles on Hong Kong streets and inside shopping malls as police move to clear extradition bill protesters after stand-off
- At least seven police injured, and an unknown number of demonstrators, after riot personnel move in to clear hundreds of protesters
- Violence followed a Sunday afternoon rally through the centre of Sha Tin attended by tens of thousands
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Riot police use pepper spray to disperse pro-democracy activists inside New Town Plaza mall. Photo: Reuters
Rioting in Kowloon in April 1966. File photo
Extradition bill protests: what Hong Kong’s history of riots can teach Carrie Lam
- The best way for the embattled chief executive to find a way out of the city’s present crisis may be to look to its past, historians and former officials say
- After all, the British colonial administration weathered far more violent affairs
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Rioting in Kowloon in April 1966. File photo