Chinese state-backed outlets accuse Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway company of abetting protesters by offering them a free and 'exclusive' train to escape police after a sit-in protest.
BOARDING. Protesters call for others to board a train towards the end of a demonstration at the Yuen Long MTR station in Hong Kong on August 21, 2019. Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP
Instead of cooperating with the police, the Hong Kong railway system helped protesters"escape," wrote the nationalistThe MTR"is telling Hong Kong society that radical demonstrators who have committed violent acts not only can avoid arrest by police but are ultimately able to enjoy free, special treatment," the paper added.
Empty trains, however, were also dispatched to pick up individuals who"might wish to leave stations as soon as possible," read the statement, which also condemned the vandalism of metro stops by some demonstrators.The city's MTR Corporation is the latest company to feel the heat from Beijing's hardening rhetoric over more than two months of anti-government protests that have plunged Hong Kong into crisis.
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