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Latest Hong Kong Protests End with Tear Gas, Rock Throwing

VOA News

   Hong Kong protests devolved into violence for a second consecutive
   night Sunday, with police firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators who
   threw rocks and bricks at a police station.

   The weekend marches have continued for the past two months to protest
   what they see as Beijing's growing control over the officially
   autonomous Chinese territory. In an ominous warning Sunday, a major
   Chinese news outlet warned that Beijing will not let the protests
   continue.

   As with previous marches, Sunday's protests began peacefully with
   demonstrators singing and playing musical instruments as large crowds
   filled the streets. But as evening fell, smaller groups marched on a
   police station and the Liaison Office, the local headquarters of the
   mainland government.

   Hundreds of masked demonstrators blocked streets in a district in Hong
   Kong's New Territories and hurled rocks and bricks at a police station,
   smashing windows. Police responded with tear gas to drive back the
   crowd. A separate group of protesters was turned back from the Liaison
   Office.

   A day earlier, protesters marched across Mong Kok and Sham Shui Po on
   Hong Kong's Kowloon peninsula before converging in Tsim Sha Tsui, a
   waterfront shopping district popular with tourists from China, where
   they briefly barricaded a cross-harbor tunnel.

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