James Pomfret

@jamespomfret

HongKonger, Reuters Chief Correspondent, james.pomfret@reuters.com

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 11

    For those in power who claim Hong Kong's youngsters are nothing but rioters, this is the tenderest retort. A young couple share a moment after finding respite from tear gas and advancing ranks of riot police in Mei Foo MTR station.

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  2. 40 minutes ago

    A bonfire of chairs lit on a bridge. Many protesters had been sleeping in a sports hall when an alarm went off just before dawn and everyone sprung to their battle stations, explosions, bracing for riot police

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  3. 53 minutes ago

    Poly U entrance in flames as riot police try to storm in

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  4. 3 hours ago

    It’s almost 4am but thousands of citizens and protesters are battling riot police in Jordan, TST, Whampoa to try to fight their way into to rescue the students. “If we can only hold on till dawn more might come,” one youngster told me

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  5. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    Members of Guarding Our Kids, formed by mothers and fathers, decided to stay with students who were trapped in the campus: We won't leave our 'kids' behind. We will safeguard this place. We want everyone here can go home.

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  6. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    Basically, if you support democracy and you live in Hong Kong you have to get out onto the street now.

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  7. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    URGENT - What is happening at Hong Kong's Polytechnic University is truly shocking.....UK POLITICIANS CALL ON HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE CARRIE LAM TO ACT TO PREVENT LOSS OF LIFE AT HONG KONG’S POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY via

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  8. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    Hong Kong Civil Human Rights Front's Urgent Appeal to International Society

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  9. 4 hours ago

    Bird’s eye view of the protester line to the east at Poly U over the Cross Harbour tunnel mouth. Police have sealed off all routes on the perimeter. Fierce fighting to the West (out of sight)

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  10. 5 hours ago

    Absolute exhaustion overtakes some frontliners in the Poly U siege

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  11. 5 hours ago

    A squad of protesters breakaway from the pack to launch a sideswipe at the police vehicles with fire bombs

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  12. 6 hours ago

    Umbrellas in the haze. Poly U protesters hold aloft the humble umbrella in a battle of attrition with a regime wielding big toys of suppression, blind to these youthful yet steely hopes for a free and democratic city

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  13. 6 hours ago

    A HK cop’s idea of a laugh, taunting trapped PolyU protesters from a bridge, we’ve got you now, he says, and chuckles with his mates, to which a protester shouts back, try coming here and saying that without your weapons

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  14. 7 hours ago

    Battle now largely focused on the w. flank of Poly U near Chatham road. A water cannon pelting protesters in repeated sorties, trying to dwindle supplies of firebombs. Many facing it full on, scalded by the liquid, screaming in pain while being hosed down

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  15. 7 hours ago

    Poly U: protesters defying the water cannon, many pushing forwards not back

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  16. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    ppl returning to gascoigne, someone shouted “poly is running out of time”. i’ve seen people of all ages out tonight, trying to save the Poly students

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  17. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    - Mong Kok is blocked left right and center following calls online to take actions in various parts of the city to support those inside

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  18. 8 hours ago

    Inside Poly U now with a Reuters team. We’ll stay whatever happens. A sense of foreboding amid grave fears of a bloody showdown, hundreds of tenacious and desperate protesters trapped on all sides by police, some highly on edge

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  19. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Where’s Where’s our civilian government Police lockdown on Pedestrian flyover linking campus to major cross harbour tunnel on fire

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  20. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    Just left Poly U. HK police seem to have sealed off all roads surrounding campus, with only 1 checkpoint for journalists, medics, to leave.

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  21. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    The Resistance in the PolyU defied Police armoured truck with molotov cocktail. When the truck charged, molotov cocktail rains set the surface of the truck on fire, and it is forced to back off. Gov & Police attacking yet another institution full-force. It's sad to witness this.

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