HONG KONG (Reuters): Hong Kong police fired tear gas on Tuesday (Nov 12) in the Central financial district, over the harbour in Mong Kok and at universities to break up pro-democracy protests which they said were leading the city to the 'brink of total breakdown'.
Protesters and journalists react after police fired tear gas at the Chinese University of Hong Kong , in Hong Kong on Nov 12, 2019. - AFP
After they had dispersed, police fired tear gas at the remaining protesters on old, narrow Pedder Street. Police made more than a dozen arrests, many pinned up on the pavement against the wall of luxury jeweller Tiffany & Co. Police also fired tear gas at City University in Kowloon Tong, beneath the Lion Rock, and at Chinese University on the other side of the mountain, where protesters threw petrol bombs and bricks at police.
Several people were wounded, including a student reporter hit in the eye, apparently by a brick, who was sitting in tears as friends offered comfort. Protesters are angry about what they see as police brutality and meddling by Beijing in the freedoms guaranteed under the"one country, two systems" formula put in place when the territory returned to China from British rule in 1997.
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