Protesters who have barricaded themselves in a Hong Kong university partially clears a road they were blocking and demanded that the government commit to holding local elections on Nov. 24.
A protester wearing helmet and tear gas mask holds a yellow umbrella outside the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus in Hong Kong on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Hong Kong police warned protesters on Thursday that they were moving "one step closer to terrorism" by sinking the city into chaos, as riot squads skirmished with militant students at major universities.
“Since the highway is still filled with hard objects and devoid of any road signs or traffic cones, reopening the road would certainly cause danger to road users,” a government statement said. The police, meanwhile, said they would investigate the death of a 70-year-old man who was hit in the head by a brick as a murder case.
“We express strong indignation and unequivocally condemn the activists,” the embassy said in a statement. “Now, they are taking such violence abroad and into the U.K.”
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