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Hong Kong riot police arrest 80 pro-democracy protesters in running clashes after several thousand demonstrators erected street barricades following clearance of part of a protest hotspot. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Dozens of Hong Kong protesters escape a two-day police siege at a campus by shimmying down a rope from a bridge to awaiting motorbikes in a dramatic and perilous breakout that followed a renewed warning by Beijing of a possible intervention to end the crisis engulfing the city. Clashes rumbled throughout the day between protesters and police who had threatened to use deadly force to dislodge activists holed-up in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). IMAGES
Hong Kong police fired tear gas on Sunday morning at protesters intent on keeping their stranglehold on a major tunnel as pro-democracy activists vowed to "squeeze the economy" into next week. IMAGES
Hong Kong police beef up security and block access to Lan Kwai Fong, one of the city's most popular party streets and the traditional venue for the largest Halloween party in town, as democracy protesters don Halloween masks lampooning pro-Beijing leaders. IMAGES
Hong Kong police fire tear gas at pro-democracy protesters after tens of thousands hit the streets once more to defy a ban on face masks despite half the city's subway stations remaining closed. IMAGES
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