HONG KONG, Nov 23 ― A Hong Kong university campus under siege for more than a week was a deserted wasteland today, with a handful of protesters holed up in hidden refuges across the trashed grounds, as the city's focus turned to local elections. The end of the siege at Polytechnic University on...
Saturday, 23 Nov 2019 11:54 AM MYT
The end of the siege at Polytechnic University on the Kowloon peninsula was approaching as some protesters desperately sought a way out and others vowed not to surrender, days after some of the worst violence since anti-government demonstrations escalated in June. About 1,000 people have been arrested in the siege in the Chinese-ruled city, about 300 of them younger than 18.
In the early hours of today, fire department officers inspected part of a sewer system through which some students had tried to flee earlier in the week, leaving backpacks, masks and other belongings scattered nearby. Young pro-democracy activists are now running in some of the seats that were once uncontested, and dominated by pro-Beijing candidates.
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