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Plainclothes police officers baton-charge protesters in a Hong Kong shopping mall. Major shopping centres have become regular protest venues with demonstrators attempting to disrupt the economy in their push for greater democratic freedoms and police accountability. IMAGES
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 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
Police fire water cannon and tear gas at Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters massed outside the city's parliament, as demonstrators defied a ban on rallying, the arrests of leading activists and rising threats from China, to take to the streets for a 13th straight weekend. IMAGES
Hong Kong riot cops fire tear gas and baton-charge protesters who retaliate with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles, as a standoff in a working-class neighbourhood descends into violence, breaking an uneasy peace that had lasted several days. IMAGES
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