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Added on the 01/12/2019 14:04:25 - Copyright : AFP EN
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
Riot police detain people as tensions remain high the morning after intense weekend clashes near Hong Kong's Polytechnic University. IMAGES
Hong Kong police on Thursday enter a university campus where authorities faced off for days with barricaded pro-democracy protesters, looking for petrol bombs and other dangerous materials left over from the siege. IMAGES
Pro-democratic lawmaker Gary Fan enters the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a stalemate between police and some protesters holed up inside the campus continues. IMAGES
Hong Kong's chief executive says protesters occupying Polytechnic University have no option but to surrender if there were to be a peaceful resolution to a three-day standoff. IMAGES
Smoke can be seen rising from a building at the besieged Hong Kong Polytechnic University where anti-government protesters have been holed up after intense clashes with riot police since the weekend. IMAGES