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02 October 2019The protests in Hong Kong do not stop. Hundreds of demonstrators from the special administrative region took to the streets again, in Central, for a march on the main streets of the city's commercial district, in the aftermath of the anti-China protests - on its 70th anniversary from birth - more violent than the commencement of demonstrations against the extradition law proposed by the head of government Carrie Lam, last June.

On the 155th the first two seriously injured arrived. A police officer fired a pistol at close range to an 18-year-old protester, Tsang Chi-kin, severely injuring his chest. So hundreds of citizens - mostly employees writing the South China Morning Post - in Hong Kong gathered in front of the school of the young protester singing the cry: "No rioters, only tyranny". The young man, according to the latest information provided by the hospital, after the operation in the night is better. The government in a note explains: "Its current state is stable".

The demonstrations are still not authorized by the police. Joshua Wong, former leader of the Umbrella Movement in 2014, became a spokesman with foreign governments in these protests, see the trip to Germany. In his interview with the Republic, he shows his discomfort towards China: "The Hong Kong resistance will not end. In fact, I believe that the shot fired will unleash an even greater and more definitive indignation in the citizens. We will never stop".