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September 29, 2019The Hong Kong police fired tear gas at protesters in a crowded shopping district after the crowd surrounded the police while carrying out a series of arrests. The brief clash in Causeway Bay was the second in two days, while the protesters increase their rallies in view of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China, which will be Tuesday.The police, before resorting to tear gas to disperse the crowd, had also used pepper spray against protesters and made the first arrests. After the launch of tear gas, the protesters resumed their march from Causeway Bay to the center of the island of Hong Kong, in Admiralty, where the institutional offices are located, while at Victoria Peak a counter-demonstration was organized where the participants sang the Chinese national anthem.
The pro-democracy protesters are at the seventeenth consecutive weekend of anti-government protests, and the agenda for the next few days is full of protest initiatives to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which will be celebrated in Beijing on Tuesday next one. In addition to the march against totalitarianism, a protest rally on the Kowloon peninsula and a march of high school students in the Tsuen Wan area were also organized.