Protesters remain unyielding, vowing to hold multiple occupations and rallies in the coming days, despite authorities' hardening stance.
MORE PROTESTS. Police fire tear gas during a protest in Tsim Sha Tsui district in Hong Kong on August 3, 2019. Photo by Philip Fong/AFP
Authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing this week signalled a hardening stance, including with the arrests of dozens of protesters, and the Chinese military saying it was ready to quell the"intolerable" unrest if requested. Officers with gas masks and shields charged at hundreds of protesters who had been besieging a nearby police station.
"The more the government suppresses us, the more we will come out until the government responds to our demands," protester Ah Kit, 36, told Agence France-Presse. But many say those rights are being curtailed, citing the disappearance into mainland custody of dissident booksellers, the disqualification of prominent politicians and the jailing of pro-democracy protest leaders.
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