Hong Kong police have used tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons against protesters over New Year's Eve and into the early morning hours.
Hong Kong police used tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons against antigovernment protesters over New Year’s Eve and into the early hours of Wednesday, extending the months-long movement into a new year.
The police actions were focused on the more industrial and working-class districts on the city’s Kowloon side, where protesters were watching a New Year’s light show. Afterward, protesters marched into a densely populated shopping district in a prelude to an annual pro-democracy march expected to be attended by tens or hundreds of thousands Wednesday afternoon.
The protests began in June over proposed legislation that could have allowed residents to be extradited to China where they could face possible torture and unfair trials. The legislation was withdrawn, but not before the protests expanded to wider calls for reforms in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
Hong Kong toned down its New Year’s celebrations amid the protests, which have dealt severe blows to the city’s retail, tourism and nightlife sectors.Protesters also gathered at the Prince Edward subway station where police four months ago had rushed in, beating and tear-gassing demonstrators who had no way to flee. That incident is among many cited by demonstrators as cases of police abuse for which no one has been held accountable.
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