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Police arrest 500 pro-democracy protesters in HK

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 03 July 2014  Updated: 1:18 AM, 24 September 2022
Protesters are taken away by police officers after hundreds of protesters staged a peaceful sit-ins overnight on a street in the financial district in Hong Kong.
Protesters are taken away by police officers after hundreds of protesters staged a peaceful sit-ins overnight on a street in the financial district in Hong Kong.

AFP, Hong Kong :
Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 protesters at a sit-in early on Wednesday following a huge march that organizers said mobilized half a million people demanding democratic reforms.
The arrests followed the largely peaceful march on Tuesday that protest leaders said brought the biggest crowds onto the streets since the city was handed over from Britain to China in 1997.
Police moved in at 3 am to break up the sit-in by about 2,000 protesters in the semi-autonomous city’s Central financial district.
They said 511 demonstrators were arrested for illegal assembly or obstructing police, but pro-democracy activists and Amnesty International criticized the move as excessive.
Several pro-democracy lawmakers were among those arrested. Police lifted activists, many lying on the ground with their arms chained to each other, onto coaches that took them to a temporary detention centre at a police college in Wong Chuk Hang district.
“I have no regrets!” one of them shouted, while others flashed V-for-victory signs.