Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as they pinned protesters inside Hong Kong's Polytechnic University, as China warned the UK and other Western powers not to meddle in its affairs
HONG KONG - Hong Kong police used tear gas and water cannon on Monday against protesters who tried to break through cordons and reach a university at the centre of a week-long standoff between demonstrators and law enforcement.
Later, about a dozen protesters pinned inside the campus escaped on the backs of waiting motorbikes after lowering themselves with rope onto the road. Dozens, choking on the tear gas, tried to leave the campus by breaking through police lines, but were pushed back. Anti-government demonstrators run from a water cannon during clashes with police near the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, China November 18, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Demonstrators are angry at what they see as Chinese meddling in Hong Kong’s promised freedoms when the then British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. They say they are responding to excessive use of force by police. On Saturday, Chinese troops in shorts and T-shirts, some carrying red plastic buckets or brooms, emerged from their barracks in a rare public appearance to help clean up debris.
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