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07 September 2019 The Hong Kong police have acted in advance, checking passports and tickets to the people headed to the city's international airport, in an attempt to prevent gatherings of protesters in what they would like to turn into a new stress test for the transport network of the city. The police searched people's backpacks and suitcases on buses and trains going to Chek Lap Kok, where there seemed to be more agents and journalists than travelers. The police did not even let in family members who wanted to welcome relatives at the arrivals terminal.The increase in controls, as reported by Reuters, served to avoid the chaos of last weekend, when the protesters - at their 14th week of protest - threw stones on the trains, blocked the roads leading to the airport and also attacked the network of the subway.
Some scuffles were recorded on the Tung Chung subway line, a satellite city adjacent to the airport, among hundreds of protesters and police in riot gear. Other sit-ins, also in the same city, were held in a shopping center run by the underground service operator. Hundreds demonstrated Friday night in Mong Kok, a district of the Kowloon peninsula. Law enforcement agencies resorted to tear gas and stinging sprays in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
In August, the protest movement blocked the entrance to the airport, causing cancellations and delays and then arriving at the clash with the police. Last night there were other clashes between protesters and police, returned to using tear gas to disperse the crowd in front of the Prince Edward station; the crowd demanded the broadcasting of the videos filmed on August 31 by the surveillance cameras on the violence of the special forces and the police against the demonstrators.