Protesters attack police at New Town Plaza shopping centre on Sunday. Photo: Bloomberg
Organisers planning another mass rally in Hong Kong warn police not to reject their request as move would effectively mean imposing curfew in city
- Civil Human Rights Front, which organised two mass protests that drew historic numbers onto the streets in June, wants to hold march this weekend
- Security Bureau denies reports government is looking into declaring a curfew and banning demonstrations following escalation of violence
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Protesters attack police at New Town Plaza shopping centre on Sunday. Photo: Bloomberg
Riot police use pepper spray to disperse protesters in Hong Kong who returned fire with umbrellas and bottles. Photo: Reuters
Head wounds, a severed finger, police and protesters in hospital: how a peaceful rally in Hong Kong descended into bloodshed and chaos in Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza mall
- Protesters and local councillors blame police who ‘blocked demonstrators from exiting shopping centre into nearby MTR station’
- Demoralised officers hit out at management’s ‘public relations’ exercise and say they were forced to act after being hit with objects thrown from above
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Hong Kong extradition law
Riot police use pepper spray to disperse protesters in Hong Kong who returned fire with umbrellas and bottles. Photo: Reuters