- Title: Hong Kong protesters denounce police ahead of flashpoint weekend
- Date: 27th September 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2019) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS CHANTING: (Cantonese) '' FIVE DEMANDS, ALL INDISPENSABLE'' NEXT TO BANNER READING (Chinese)''FREE HONG KONG, REVOLUTION NOW'' PROTESTERS HOLDING PHONES, WAVING HONG KONG INDEPENDENCE FLAG AND CHANTING: '' FIVE DEMANDS, ALL INDISPENSABLE'' PROTESTERS CLAPPING HANDS/ HOLDING PLACARDS READING (English/Chinese): "STOP POLICE VIOLENCE"/POLICE PAY NO RESPECT TO LAW AND CIVILIAN" PROTESTERS CLAPPING HANDS / PROTESTERS SITTING NEXT TO CANDLES PROTESTERS PUTTING DOWN PAPER CRANE NEXT TO CANDLE PROTESTERS HOLDING PLACARDS DENOUNCING POLICE PLACARD READING (English):"WORLD POWERS MUST SANCTION ALL EVIL HONG KONG COPS" (SOUNDBITE) (Cantonese) 40-YEAR-OLD PROTESTER, MISS LAM, SAYING: "The Hong Kong police can arrest people who they believe are suspects, but they can't put the law into their own hands. So today we are here rallying to tell the government that we are very angry about the police over arresting and treating Hong Kong people cruelly.'' VARIOUS OF PEOPLE TAKING PICTURE OF 'LADY LIBERTY HONG KONG' VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS STANDING ON PLATFORM WEARING GUY FAWKES MASK CHANTING (Cantonese): "FREE HONG KONG, REVOLUTION NOW" PROTESTER WEARING GUY FAWKES MASK HOLDING BLACK FLAG READING (Chinese):" FREE HONG KONG, REVOLUTION NOW" (SOUNDBITE) (Cantonese) 30-YEAR-OLD PROTESTER, K.C., SAYING: "It has been three months (since the protests started), to this moment, each of the five demands are very important. Because the five demands are indispensable. Carrie Lam has been escaping until now. Yesterday she said she was having dialogue with people. But I think the situation is that she was just listening to the advice but the attitude is the same." PROTESTERS HOLDING PHONES AND CHANTING: '' FIVE DEMANDS, ALL INDISPENSABLE'' PROTESTERS GATHERED PROTESTERS HOLDING PHONES WITH FLASHLIGHTS ON / LIGHTS BLURRING TIME-LAPSE OF PROTESTERS LIGHTING UP PHONE FLASHLIGHTS
- Embargoed: 11th October 2019 15:53
- Keywords: Hong Kong protesters harbor police brutality 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001AYFLD1J
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Thousands of Hong Kong protesters rallied at the harbor side on Friday (September 27), chanting slogans accusing the police of brutality and setting the stage for a weekend of demonstrations leading up to the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
The downtown rally was one of a series of protests that have united activists denouncing Chinese rule, calling for democracy and even for independence from Beijing, often resulting in violent clashes with police in the former British colony.
Activists have targeted police over more than three months with petrol bombs, rocks and laser shone in their eyes, furious at social media footage of random beatings, especially one night against protesters cowering on the floor of a subway train.
Police have responded with teargas, water cannon, rubber bullets and occasional live rounds fired into the air.
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