Hong Kong police have arrested 82 demonstrators after clashes between the two sides, the largest number of protesters arrested a day since the protests began on June 9, rejecting a bill allowing the extradition of people to be tried in China. Extremely dangerous situation.
A police spokeswoman said security forces arrested 82 protesters on Monday during simultaneous demonstrations in seven areas of China's city after being under British sovereignty until 1997. Police arrested more than 20 people yesterday after violent clashes with police. Local anti-government protesters.
In the popular Wong Tai Sin District, the smoke-gassing continued in the afternoon, while the city was under an unprecedented general strike. Protesters took to the main subway stations in the morning rush hour, deliberately keeping the doors open to prevent them from moving, The transfer used by millions a day, has occurred fights between angry passengers and protesters at the subway stations.
| Protesters storm subway stations, disrupt movement to express opposition to bill to extradite people for trial in China (Getty Images) |
Simultaneous demonstrations
This afternoon, seven simultaneous demonstrations were organized, causing the dispersal of police capabilities that fired tear gas at at least two locations.
Protests in Hong Kong against a proposed bill allowing extradition of people to stand trial in China have escalated, and demands have grown to calls for greater democracy and an end to the decline of freedoms.
On Monday afternoon, more than 160 flights from the city's airport, one of the world's busiest airports, were canceled. The cancellations of Cathay Pacific, which did not specify the reason for the cancellation, Confirmed that some of its members had left the work.
Some of the city's main roads were cut, causing traffic jams, and many clothing shops were closed.
| Hong Kong government chief says protesters push city into extreme danger (Getty Images) |
Authorities warn
"They have seriously undermined law and order in Hong Kong and are pushing our city, the city we love and many of us have helped to build, to the brink of a very dangerous situation," she said.
The official called for protesters to call for "revolution", describing it as a challenge to the policy of "one country, two systems" on which Hong Kong has been run since its return to Chinese rule from Britain.
The Chinese military described the demonstrations in Hong Kong as inadmissible and broadcast a propaganda video showing a maneuver for soldiers suppressing a demonstration in the autonomous city under Chinese sovereignty.
Under the British-Hong Kong extradition agreement, China's residents enjoy rights and freedoms that do not exist in the rest of China, including judicial independence and freedom of expression, but many say these freedoms are declining.