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Hong Kong police arrest more than 100 people as scuffles break out; Mong Kok protest camp cleared – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

November 26, 2014

Hong Kong police arrest more than 100 people as scuffles break out; Mong Kok protest camp cleared – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Police in Hong Kong have arrested more than 100 people, including two prominent student leaders, while breaking up a protest camp in the city’s Mong Kok district.

Fresh scuffles broke out as authorities moved into the area to clear the main body of one of the major pro-democracy protest sites.

Police wearing helmets and brandishing batons moved in to protect city workers as crowds surged forward to stop them tearing down barricades at the largest part of the Mong Kok site.

Protesters said the movement’s student leaders Joshua Wong and Lester Shum were arrested.

“If we lose here, we won’t lose our heart. We can go somewhere else [to occupy]. It doesn’t need to be here,” said Kelvin Ng, a 21-year-old protester.

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Scuffles break out as Hong Kong clears part of protest site | Reuters

November 25, 2014

Scuffles break out as Hong Kong clears part of protest site | Reuters.

(Reuters) – Scuffles erupted after Hong Kong authorities cleared part of a pro-democracy protest camp in the bustling district of Mong Kok on Tuesday following a court order to reopen a road, with several demonstrators taken away in police vans.

The gritty, working-class area across the harbor from the main protest site at Admiralty has been the scene of some of the most violent clashes during two months of pro-democracy demonstrations in the Chinese-ruled city.

Hundreds of police stood guard as authorities enforced the court order to reopen Argyle Street to free up traffic. There was little resistance until the afternoon when police, some in rows with arms linked, faced off with protesters, several of whom were forcibly removed.

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Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Says Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement Is Illegal

November 12, 2014

Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Says Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement Is Illegal.

HONG KONG—Xi Jinping, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, has for the last six weeks been relatively quiet about the pro-democracy students and activists that have flooded streets in Hong Kong, calling for free and open elections.

He departed from that quiet on Wednesday, saying that the occupy movement in Hong Kong is an “illegal incident.”

“We resolutely support the government of the Special Administrative Region dealing with the matter according to law, protecting Hong Kong’s social stability, and safeguarding the safety of the Hong Kong people and their property,” he said in a joint press conference with President Barack Obama, held after the APEC meetings in Beijing on Nov. 12.

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