We're live as police surround protesters at a Hong Kong university. It comes after officials threatened to use live rounds against them as clashes intensify dramatically https://t.co/9xjytmLDR1
Police fire rounds and rounds of tear gas again at every exit they try to leave. The protesters are forced to trap in PolyU. #antielab#hongkongprotests
Pro-democracy protesters inside Hong Kong's Polytechnic University say they're 'terrified' history will repeat itself.
Using the hashtag #Tiananmen2019 they are pleading for help, claiming they fear some people may die in the ongoing siege https://t.co/FREEa84H2n
Med et universitetscampus i flammer og politi og demonstranter i kraftige sammenstøt, er jeg veldig bekymret over hva som vil skje videre i Hongkong. https://t.co/oVAbWuyCI9 #StandWithPolyU
This is how journalists leave #HongKong#PolyU war zone - we were forced to raised our hands like suspects when we walked to the cordon line. At least 1 riot police officer pointed his gun to my colleague. Some yelled at me beacuse I put my hand in pocket while waiting in line.
Police have cordoned off access to PolyU, will not allow press in to the campus unless you’re relieving someone inside. Mixed reports of the truth of that as well. Serious decline of press freedoms in Hong Kong today
Protesters have made multiple attempts to flee the campus this morning, but have always been attacked and repelled. It's hard to imagine what police hope to achieve if it's not bloodshed.
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They can't get into the uni without live fire (they've tried).
A photo of what I just mentioned. Clear violation of international standards on use of teargas. The cops were peaking their heads up & shooting so fast, they didn’t even see what they were shooting, right down on heads, most here don’t have helmets.
A bloody fight has broken out between protesters and riot police outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where upwards of several hundred student protesters have been barricaded inside for days. https://t.co/TCtHvlLEId
Police officers cornered hundreds of protesters who occupied PolyU, offering them one way out: "drop your weapons" and surrender (and possibly face up to 10 years in jail), or be met with a hail of tear gas and rubber bullets (and still risk arrest). https://t.co/AfD5bdcq5L
The police siege at Polytechnic University is the most violent confrontations of Hong Kong protests so far. By laying siege & firing tear gas & rubber bullets at people trying to flee, Hong Kong Police are again fanning flames of violence when they should be trying to defuse it.
#BREAKING Medical volunteers arrested, their hands tied and locked like fugitives. This is outrageous. The HK govt has lost control over police force. A violent bloodshed is under way.
The brave students & activists at #PolyU represent the future of a democratic #HongKong. America stands with them, not police who are trying to crush this movement on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. We urge no use of lethal force. #StandWithHongKong
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