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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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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Police fire rubber bullets towards PolyU from inside their armoured vehicles.
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Members of "Protect Our Children" - an older Christian group of volunteers that attempts to mediate between police and frontline protesters - decide to stay at PolyU to assist the wounded.
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Legislator Ted Hui says he has managed to reach a balcony inside the PolyU campus, and feels the stinging smell of tear gas and pepper spray. He described the situation as a humanitarian disaster, with the campus cut off from supplies.
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A photo circulating from inside the besieged PolyU campus on Sunday night shows a protester holding up the US and UK flags with a banner reading "save us".
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InMedia reports that from Hung Hom, police broadcasted songs from deceased Cantopop stars Leslie Cheung and Roman Tam - from a bygone era - in an attempt to demoralise PolyU protesters.
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Ex-UK foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind and parliamentarians Baroness Bennett and Lord Alton have issued a statement calling on Chief Executive Carrie Lam to order the police to exercise restraint at PolyU.
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Pro-democracy legislator Alvin Yeung is filming riot police stopping and searching youths near Polytechnic University.
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Protesters on Jordan Road, trying to relieve the siege of the Polytechnic University, break open a fire hydrant to relieve themselves after police fire tear gas at them.
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For unknown reasons, riot police attempted to enter Let's Jam - a known pro-democracy restaurant in Jordan near PolyU with another branch in Sai Kung - but was successfully rebuffed by the owner.
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Earlier on Sunday evening, as protesters blocked roads in Tai Po, a riot police officer was heard taunting a heckling crowd that he "wanted Tiananmen to happen again".
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Protesters at PolyU have reportedly managed to hit a police armoured vehicle with a Molotov cocktail using a catapult.
Meanwhile, riot police advanced quickly between Nathan Road and Austin Road, reportedly arresting two people.
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At around 2:30am, reporters near PolyU are being lined up by a wall and searched by riot police.
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Intense clashes continue in Jordan at 2:30am as protesters try to divert police from PolyU.
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Several arrests were made on the stretch of Nathan Road near Jordan as riot police rushed forward towards protesters.
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Prior to the arrests, protesters had apparently thrown Molotov cocktails into the premises of the Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station.
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Little progress has been made after Catholic bishop Joseph Ha and pro-democracy legislators attempted to speak to the police commanders near PolyU.
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Riot police on the Chatham Road South - Austin Road junction are equipped with the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, but have not fired.
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Protesters on Nathan Road have attempted to drive a tractor towards police defences, but were rebuffed by tear gas.
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The Hong Kong Journalists Association is reportedly trying to persuade police to allow student journalists for university media, stuck inside PolyU, to leave the scene.
Full-time reporters with press credentials have been genreally allowed to do so.
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At least one arrestee on Nathan Road in Jordan appears to have lost consciousness. Reports are also emerging of injuries inside PolyU that need to be treated - but police have refused ambulances entry into the campus.
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The police's water cannon and armoured vehicles make another push towards the Polytechnic University at 3:30am Monday, with reports that protesters may be soon exhausting their supplies of Molotov cocktails.
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The water cannon trucks have backed off again. It has been rumoured on social media channels that sproadic attacks aim to exhaust the protesters' supply of Molotov cocktails and other weaponry.
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The same scenes - where the police water cannon truck and armoured vehicles briefly advance and retreat between Chatham Road South and Austin Road - are repeated at 4am.
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At 3am, police haul away an armoured vehicle heavily damaged by protesters' Molotov cocktails earlier in the night.
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HKFP saw an incident in Jordan where police officers escorted a patient - possibly arrested - to an ambulance, and crowds tried to seize the patient. With police hiding in the ambulance, crowds tried to topple the vehicle, and police fired three live warning shots into the air.
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