Several thousand protesters defied a police ban to converge on a rural Hong Kong town where suspected triad gang members attacked protesters and commuters at a train station last weekend. More here: by jamespomfret MZaharia
HONG KONG - Several thousand protesters defied a police ban on Saturday to converge on a rural Hong Kong town where suspected triad gang members attacked protesters and commuters at a train station last weekend.
But activists pushed ahead and by 4.45 p.m. several thousand had gathered in sweltering heat, many chanting slogans against the police. Last Sunday, about 100 white-shirted men stormed the Yuen Long mass-transit station hours after protesters marched through central Hong Kong and defaced China’s Liaison Office - the main symbol of Beijing’s authority over the former British colony.
The Yuen Long attack and the vandalism at the Liaison Office marked new fronts in a protest movement that has intensified over the last two months.The protests, considered the most direct challenge to the authority of China’s President Xi Jinping, mushroomed on Friday as thousands of activists thronged the arrivals halls of Hong Kong international airport.
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