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              Hong Kong Police Arrest Dozens of Student Protesters

   by VOA News

   Riot police in Hong Kong have arrested dozens of student protesters who
   forced their way into government headquarters overnight.

   Police clashed several times throughout the night with hundreds of
   protesters who forced their way through a security gate or scaled a
   tall fence to enter a square in the government complex.

   Authorities used pepper spray Saturday to disperse the protesters and
   hauled away those who refused to leave the square.  Outside the
   grounds, a large crowd of fellow students chanted at police and
   demanded that they stop arresting their comrades.

   Police said several people suffered minor injuries in the clashes.

   Saturday was the last day of a week-long boycott of classes and
   protests to demand that Beijing allow full democratic elections in
   2017.

   Pro-democracy activists were outraged after China last month ruled all
   candidates for the 2017 vote must be approved by a pro-Beijing
   committee.

   Thousands of university students have stayed away from classes all week
   to take part in the pro-democracy campaign.

   China has vowed to continue the so-called "one country, two systems"
   plan implemented following the hand-over of Hong Kong from Britain to
   Beijing in 1997.

   Under the initiative, residents of Hong Kong have been allowed more
   freedom than on the mainland, but many residents say that freedom is
   eroding.
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