From Hung Hom, police are broadcasting songs with a loudspeaker urging protesters to surrender.
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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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According to PolyU governing council student member Owan Li, the university’s management had attempted to negotiate with police to allow those with no gear except surgical masks to leave on Sunday night, but the police reneged.
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Photographs of a mass round-up of doctors, nurses and medics who retreated from PolyU circulate on social media.
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Other medics and volunteers continue to treat those sprayed with water cannon and other injuries inside PolyU past midnight.
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US Congressman Jim McGovern has called for a de-escalation of the situation at the Polytechnic University.
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Police say that at around 10pm, a white private vehicle attempted to ram officers at Austin Road, and one live round was fired during the incident.
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The situation has quietened down again after police attempted to push through the western gates of PolyU with armoured vehicles after midnight.
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PolyU students and alumni have began an urgent petition urging the police to stop storming the university campus and allow people trapped inside to leave peacefully.
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Riot police search vehicles by the Tsim Sha Tsui East harbourfront, a short distance from PolyU.
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The Hong Kong Catholic Church's liberal-leaning bishop Joseph Ha is reportedly attempting to reach PolyU.
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There is a far larger presence of black-clad protesters blocking roads than on usual nights on Nathan Road and in Tsim Sha Tsui after 1am, near where the police have surrounded PolyU.
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The Hong Kong Journalists Association said police told them that anyone caught retreating from PolyU that did not possess a press card would face arrest.
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At 1am, a large amount tear gas is fired between Nathan Road and Austin Road from the Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station, where protesters have gathered to divert officers' attention from PolyU.
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Prolific protest organiser Civil Human Rights Front's vice-convener Figo Chan is heading to the outskirts of PolyU, with convener Jimmy Sham still injured from last month's attack on him.
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#HongKong's Catholic bishop Joseph Ha is at the outskirts of PolyU, meeting with a visiting US pastor.
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The heads of five Hong Kong universities have released a statement calling for all belligerents at PolyU to remain calm, and for university personnel to leave the scene immediately. However, the campus has been surrounded by police since Sunday evening. File photo: Stand News.pic.twitter.com/Nt2OiikNGS
To divert police attention away from PolyU, a commercial building in Tsim Sha Tsui East has been vandalised, with a fire extinguisher on the ceiling spraying water around the floor.
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Firefighters check the heavily-damaged police armoured vehicle after protesters threw Molotov cocktails onto it earlier on Sunday evening.
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PolyU Governing Council's student member Owan Li told reporters - holding back tears - that he feared a repeat of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in his own university, and called on alumni to help the students inside.
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A clash after midnight at the Austin Road - Chatham Road South junction, which has been the epicentre of police-protester battles at PolyU for over 24 hours.
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Pro-democracy legislators and Catholic bishop Joseph Ha, on the northern outskirts, are discussing their next moves after police rebuffed their request for officers to show restraint and lift the PolyU siege.
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Protesters inside PolyU remove their clothes to wash off the chemical-laced coloured dye fired by police water cannon.
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