(CNN) — Hong Kong police have laid siege to a central university campus which has been fortified by pro-democracy protesters after nearly six months of demonstrations in the fiercely divided city.
Hundreds of protesters with bricks and makeshift barricades are holding off riot police on roads surrounding the campus in the city’s Hung Hom district, just across Victoria Harbor from Hong Kong Island. The authorities have responded with tear gas and threats of rubber bullets in skirmishes that continued into Sunday afternoon.
Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University was just one of a number of university campuses being used in the past week as a rallying point for Hong Kong’s protest movement.
But unlike other campuses such as the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Polytechnic University sits in the center of the city, close to a number of major roads including a cross harbor tunnel.
In the past week, protesters have blocked these roads, severely disrupting the city’s public transport system.
The protests in Hong Kong have now been raging for almost six months after they began in June over a controversial China extradition bill, which sparked huge marches across the city.When the government suspended but didn’t withdraw the bill, the movement’s focus quickly expanded […]
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