1 year agoMore than 40 volunteers from Protect the Children are on PolyU campus, alongside dozens of youngsters. One member explains: "The reason we are staying here is that police are not letting us out."
1 year agoGreat escape from PolyU police lockdown
1 year agoInfo: Two live feeds from HongKong's Jordan district (near PolyU) now. The visuals and the non-stop loud bangs of firing speak for themselves, even if you don't speak Cantonese. TV: RTHK
1 year agoA group appearing to be first-aiders are arrested by police near PolyU. Video: Supplied.
1 year agoAbout a 100 secondary school students are trapped inside PolyU. More than 30 school principals are requesting the police's permission to let them enter the PolyU campus to accompany students to leave peacefully
1 year agoAs of 8pm, many riot police are present in Tsim Sha Tsui East, where a large group of protesters have gathered to show support to those stuck inside the besieged campus PolyU. Photo: InMedia screenshot
China's ambassador to UK Liu Xiaoming is giving 3rd v strongly worded press briefing on Hong Kong crisis. He's not holding back. He warns Hong Kong risks "sliding into an abyss of chaos". He says territory's future would be "unimaginably dreadful" & says "violence must end"
1 year agoA police armoured vehicle pushes through Chatham Road South near the Urban Council Cetenary Garden where protesters are massed. Photo: Apple Daily screenshot.
1 year agoCarrieLam updated her FB praising the police officer shot by an arrow in back of his left lower leg and urging "rioters" in PolyU to follow police's instructions
Police have deployed an armoured vehicle and water cannon on Chatham Road South, firing tear gas at protesters on the road. The road, in east Tsim Sha Tsui, is just to the south of the PolyU campus
1 year agoMore armored vehicle action and firing on Chatham Rd S
1 year agoOn Nathan Road, protesters have formed a human supply chain, passing glass bottles, umbrellas, water to the frontlines outside PolyU - where hundreds continue to be blockaded inside the campus
At a police press conference, a commander says the force has arrested 51 people wearing "reporter" or "first aid" vests, citing intelligence that "some rioters would disguise themselves as fake reporters or first-aiders"
Derek Liu Kin-kwan, president of the PolyU student union, estimates about 600 people are still trapped on the PolyU campus
1 year ago#hkpolice fired beanbag rounds squarely on reporters in hostile manner a when they were still livestreaming.
The government confirms that the emergency anti-mask law imposed last month will no longer be enforced the High Court has ruled it is unconstitutional.
1 year agoProtesters on Chatham are dismantling their barricades and advancing mortars toward the riot police lines
1 year agoAn injured protester is carried off the front lines in Jordan
1 year agoAnd the inevitable teargas attack, Gascoigne Rd 16.00. Protesters have lots of fire extinguishers & have gotten really good at putting out teargas canisters with them
1 year agoPolyU student chanting "Liberate Hongkong" before being arrested
1 year agoA tearful mother is seen crying in Tsim Sha Tsui as she fears she may lose her children, who are in PolyU. But one police officer questioned: "isn't throwing bricks also hurting people" Video: SCMP/Alvin Lum
1 year agoKowloon Union Church in Jordan has become a place of refuge for tired protesters and volunteer medics. Two nurses help to escort an injured person into the church
Protesters in Tsim Sha Tsui have returned to Chatham Road South yet again, setting up roadblocks in front of a police cordon. Earlier, tear gas and sponge grenades were fired to disperse them
1 year agoJordan is turning into a beach as black-clad protesters tear bricks from paved sidewalks on Gascoigne Road and Nathan, break them into fragments and toss them into roads
Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station is closed after petrol bombs are thrown into it
1 year agoNOW: Protestors fired upon by tear gas while fleeing the rooftop of the overpass at the Polytechnic University
1 year agoLong supply chain lines are forming to pass bricks to the front line where they're building a new frontline on Cameron Rd
1 year agoOrange flag in TST
Hong Kong's anti-mask law has been ruled "unconstitutional" by the city's High Court
Legislator Ted Hui clarifies his Facebook page that he has not been arrested and is still around PolyU campus
1 year agoRiot police arrived and fired tear gas at Jordan Road to clear several hundred protesters who have been setting roadblocksalong Nathan Road - who are hoping to save PolyU students.
1 year agoA protester on the outskirts of PolyU on Gascoigne Road has reportedly been shot with a police projectile on the forehead at around 11:40am. Photo: Stand News screenshot
1 year agoPan-dem legislator Ted Hui has also been arrested - @ClaudiaMCMo's Facebook page
1 year agoChief Executive Carrie Lam arrives at Kwong Wah Hospital to pay a visit to the police officer shot with an arrow on Sunday at the conflict outside Polytechnic University
1 year agoPolice fired 3 or 4 rounds down at protesters from a bridge in Jordan. Looks like this guy got hit.
Democratic Party lawmaker Ted Hui, who has stayed on campus since Sunday, says most students and radicals are already very tired after previous confrontations with police, and their supplies are running low
1 year agoU.S. admin comments about what's happening in Hong Kong
Police have just charged up Nathan Rd from Salisbury Rd in many vans. Jumped out at Kowloon mosque where a barricaded was set. Protesters fled westward toward Canton Rd
1 year agoArmed riot police raise a tear gas warning flag to protesters in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui district 香港 video: i-Cable News
1 year agoBlack-clad masked protesters regroup and rebuild roadblocks at the junction of Nathan and Jordan Roads that was earlier cleared Video: SCMP/Lilian Cheng
1 year agoIn Tsim Sha Tsui, about 100 people have been arrested by police. An officer says they are detained for fleeing from PolyU and for blocking roads Video: SCMP/Alvin Lum
Police have lengthened their cordon all the way down Chatham Rd S to Mody Rd and pushed people gathered back a block or so in the area near the Science Museum. The safest place to gather at the moment is west of Chatham Rd S
1 year agoAt least 40 ppl arrested outside Hotel Icon in Tsim Sha Tsui, near PolyUHK. An officer at scene said some are believed to have come to rescue students under police siege and stuck inside the uni campus.
1 year agoMorning has broken in HongKong at Poly U and it's an awful start - at least hundreds of students are inside that campus. which is on fire. Small explosions every minute. The middle of the campus is quite open so hopefully students can take refuge there
1 year ago"I don't want another 8964 to occur in Poly U." Photo: Kero/USP United Social Press
1 year agoProtestors are trying to leave the PolyU campus as riot police fire a constant stream of tear gas at them
1 year agoTear gas clouds the air and police spray water cannons at protesters as clashes continue into early Monday morning near Hong Kong Polytechnic University
1 year agoAnd things have gotten very intense in Jordan as the rescue team of protesters fight multiple fronts with police. Molotov's and tear gas everywhere. This is Hong Kong, 4am Monday morning
1 year agoFootage circulates on social media of the earlier scenes when police fired three warning shots on Canton Road, Jordan to disperse protesters attacking them while they hid inside an ambulance.
1 year agoIn the aftermath of the firing of the live warning shots in Jordan, more riot police have emerged to reinforce the area. Photo: HKFP.
1 year agoProtesters have occupied Nathan Road between Jordan & Yau Ma Tei. Shortly after these photos were taken a water cannon emerged and fired on crowds behind Eaton Hotel ok Gascoigne Rd. Tear gas fired also
1 year ago[23:10] Water cannon fired on Gascoigne Road, Jordan
1 year agoThe moment when a police armored car caught fire after being hit by petrol bombs from student protestors at HongKong's Poly University tonight.
1 year agoThe police armoured vehicle after it was set ablaze approaching Poly University
1 year agoThe police have given the protesters occupying the @HongKongPolyU campus an ultimatum that they must leave by 10 pm. Otherwise, they will storm into PolyU to make an arrest. Beleaguered, protesters are currently struggling to remain on the campus
The police force has confirmed in that an acoustic device installed on its armoured vehicles was used on Sunday to deliver a warning to the protesters outside PolyU. It said the LRAD is only a broadcasting device, not a weapon as suggested by some
1 year agoClashes on the eastern footbridges of the Polytechnic University continue into the evening, as injured protesters limp away from the frontlines. One man was shot with a police bean bag round in the chin. Photo: Stand News.
1 year agoThere are reports of police units roaming the History and Science Musems to detect any firing of arrows. Further to the outskirts of the Polytechnic University, there are reports of police stopping and searching vehicles to halt any supplies. Photo: Viola Kam / USP