Hong Kong: Protesters clash with police and take to the streets

Hong Kong is experiencing a new day of tension this Saturday. The police are trying to disperse the protesters with tear gas, but without success. Unlike the intentions of the agents, hundreds of people have been reached tear down barriers that protect Parliament and the headquarters of the Hong Kong Executive.

The situation is more and more worrying. Armed with shields, protesters threw Molotov bombs to the police. In itself, the concentration is a challenge for the Hong Kong authorities who banned the demonstration in the streets of British Excolonia, one day after the arrest of several figures of the movement.

The police justified the decision of the manifestation of prohibition scheduled for Saturday for clashes occurred last Sunday, one of the most serious episodes since the start of the protest in June.

To dodge the ban, he called to organize on the island of Hong Kong religious concentrations, which do not need any permissions. And at the beginning of the afternoon, several thousand people were gathered mainly in a stadium of Wanchai district.

In anticipation of the clashes, police built new barricades around the Chinese central government liaison office.

Raid

Hong Kong lives nearly three months its worst political crisis since its return to China in 1997, with almost daily actions that have sometimes ended in riots. An unprecedented situation that the authorities of the semi-autonomous region can not react to.

This Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of Beijing's refusal to hold universal suffrage elections in Hong Kong. This decision triggered the "Umbrella Movement" of 2014, marked by 79 days of occupation of the financial and political center of the city.

The demonstration was convened by the Civilian Front of Human Rights (FCHR), nonviolent organization which has forecast the highest concentrations in recent months. In particular that of August 18, which gathered 1.7 million people according to the organizers and which ended without incident.

In addition to the ban on demonstrations, the five top-level activists and the three the deputies were arrested in a raid.