The prospect of violence has added to growing apprehension in Hong Kong about where the monthslong protest movement is headed
HONG KONG—Enraged by allegations that authorities have teamed with mafia thugs to attack protesters, tens of thousands of demonstrators were preparing Saturday to rally in an outlying neighborhood known as an underworld stronghold, prompting police warnings of potential violence.
Hundreds of thousands of residents of this semiautonomous Chinese city have taken to the streets a series of demonstrations since early June. The initial spark was an extradition bill that would make it easier for Beijing to prosecute locals under...Assailants wielding wooden rods and bamboo sticks assaulted people returning from antigovernment protests as well as other commuters at a subway station in northwestern Hong Kong last Sunday.
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