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Added on the 19/11/2019 05:44:50 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A group of student protesters, covered in blankets, are huddled together and getting assistance from paramedics inside the besieged Hong Kong Polytechnic University as they wait to be be brought out. The campus has become the epicentre for the battle between anti-government student demonstrators and riot police in recent days. IMAGES
Two students are escorted out of Hong Kong Polytechnic University by paramedics. The number of protesters holed up inside the campus has been dwindling. IMAGES
Dozens of Hong Kong protesters escape a two-day police siege at a campus by shimmying down a rope from a bridge to awaiting motorbikes in a dramatic and perilous breakout that followed a renewed warning by Beijing of a possible intervention to end the crisis engulfing the city. Clashes rumbled throughout the day between protesters and police who had threatened to use deadly force to dislodge activists holed-up in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). IMAGES
Police officers clear barricades at a street near the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where pro-democracy protesters have been holed up. IMAGES
Images of handcuffed students waiting on a sidewalk, while surrounded by police officers, on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus hours after hundreds of police cleared the pro-Palestine protest encampment. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.