Hong Kong crisis: riot police flood city as China protests build
Thousands of armed police have flooded the streets of Hong Kong in a show of force to prevent protests against a law criminalising ridicule of China’s national anthem. At lunchtime rallies, police fired pepper bullets into crowds, and arrested at least 180 protesters. |
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