Thousands of Hong Kongers took to the streets Saturday for a series of wildcat protests as police locked down and barricaded major streets around the Chinese government's offices in the city.
This 13th consecutive weekend of protest follows a week of escalation, including a sudden wave of arrests on Friday of pro-democracy leaders and lawmakers, including youth leaders Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow.
Streets around the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government, China's de facto embassy to the city, were heavily barricaded as of Saturday morning, with a large police presence. On Friday however, one US official told CNN that Washington had no indication that any troops had left the city, suggesting that the week's deployment may have swelled Hong Kong's garrison by the thousands. CNN has reached out to Hong Kong and Chinese authorities for comment.
Online organizing platform LIHKG also said on Saturday morning that its server had received an unprecedented distributed denial of service attack it said was designed to drive it offline. Another key platform, the encrypted messaging app Telegram, has previously said it was targeted by DDoS attacks, which it linked to the protests.Hong Kong has been protesting for almost three months, with some demonstrations drawing estimated crowds of over a million.
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