Intense clashes continue outside Polytechnic University on Sunday afternoon, as a journalist's greying hair is dyed blue from the water cannon.
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In a parody of the mural depicting Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker's "socialist fraternal kiss", a makeshift wall is set up depicting Xi Jinping and Carrie Lam.
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The rally aims to inspire participants that authoritarian regimes will eventually fall.
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At 7:15pm, a fiery blaze engulfed a footbridge linking the Polytechnic University to Hung Hom Coliseum above the Cross-Harbour Tunnel. Police and protesters retreated from it; the former are firing tear gas from across the bridge.
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The huge blaze has burnt through the ceiling of the Hung Hom-Polytechnic University footbridge, while flaming debris has also dropped down to the empty Cross-Harbour Tunnel entrance-way below. Firefighters arrived shortly before 7:30pm.
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Heavy riot police presence in the area has surrounded the Polytechnic University by 7:30pm, with some arriving journalists from various outlets saying they do not know how to get inside the campus.
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There have been calls for protests to erupt across #HongKong in order to divert police attention from the Polytechnic University. Clashes are especially heavy in Mong Kok, between Nathan and Waterloo Roads.
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Inside a besieged Polytechnic University, the situation has momentarily calmed.
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Polytechnic University management has called on people inside not to use violence and to leave the campus immediately. However, reports suggest the campus is completely surrounded, with no way of departing.
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Legislator Ted Hui attempted to negotiate with police to allow people stuck inside the Polytechnic University to leave, but was rebuffted, and sprayed with pepper spray.
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Police announced on Facebook shortly before 9:30pm that all people inside the Polytechnic University campus should leave via the northern exit at Lee Shau Kee Building, but they should "follow police orders" when doing so.
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From Hung Hom, police are broadcasting songs with a loudspeaker urging protesters to surrender.
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An InMedia reporter is live-streaming whether it is possible — as police claim — to leave the Polytechnic University via the northern end at Lee Shau Kee Building.
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A few journalists have decided to leave via the northern Y Core exit as police instructed them. On the way, police fired several projectiles at them.
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InMedia’s live streaming as to the northern exit route from Polytechnic University’s Y Core has ended after the group of journalists encountered riot police.
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The last scenes from InMedia’s live streaming of the northern exit route proposed by police saw two medics arrested.
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The police continue to broadcast messages asking protesters inside PolyU to surrender, choosing to describe them as “civilians”, and playing songs. Messages circulating on social media suggest that some are refusing to do so, and have written their wills. Photo: InMedia.pic.twitter.com/ZtRtvpOZrt
Outside PolyU on Gascoigne Road, a group of protesters are trying to break through police lines to carve out an escape route for those inside, but are rebuffed with tear gas.
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Protests to try and divert police attention from PolyU — heeding the call on social media referring to the proverb to “encircle Wei to save Zhao” — break out across #HongKong. Riot police made some arrests in Tin Shui Wai, while Kowloon Bay is a flash point.
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HKFP_Live: Riot police have again tried to push into the Polytechnic University via the Chatham Road—Austin Road junction on the west side of the campus: https://www.facebook.com/hongkongfp/videos/2393508750916195/ …pic.twitter.com/Wz8SiqlXoq
Following the authorised rally in Edinburgh Place, some shouted “PolyU students are not condoms” — referring to the disposability of the item — and set roadblocks in Central to attract police. Some people were later stopped and searched when police arrived. Photo: Apple Daily.pic.twitter.com/5d0pt3h8uj
Almost a dozen pro-democracy legislators are at the outskirts of PolyU, urging police to end their siege.
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Water cannon is fired again towards the protesters at the western end of Polytechnic University, as clashes intensify near midnight.
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Riot police arrived near Whampoa Gardens — near PolyU — to chase away local residents who set up roadblocks and gathered to divert their attention.
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The InMedia reporter who live-streamed her exit via the northern Y Core route from the Polytechnic University was let through after a police search. A reporter from a less-known online media outlet was arrested, however.
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A lone motorcyclist tried to rush through the police cordon from the Cross-Harbour Tunnel to reach the Polytechnic University, but was spotted and searched by police.
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In Aberdeen on the south of Hong Kong Island, protesters also tried to block roads to attract riot police, but ended up engaging in physical clashes with pro-Beijing residents.
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Many first aid personnel remain at PolyU to treat the wounded.
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The Civil HumanRights Front — organiser of many peaceful protests for over a decade — has appealed to the international community to pressure police to stop the siege of the #hongkong Polytechnic University.pic.twitter.com/WsAHKQ368j
A 16-year-old Form 4 protester told Stand News he is willing to surrender himself to the police and face criminal charges if the government responds to the protesters’ “five demands”.
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The police warned in a Facebook video at midnight that they could use lethal live rounds if protesters at PolyU did not stop attacking them with bows and arrows and petrol bombs.
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