#polytechnic university

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Just feel that dense clouds, messy grass and hopelessness of fall 🖤

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Love Spb

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Dark academy be like...

Didn't waste my young years!

[newsinsider]

Vast crowds throng streets of Hong Kong

Hundreds of thousands of black-clad demonstrators thronged the streets of Hong Kong in the largest anti-government rally since local elections last month and a resounding show of continued support for the pro-democracy movement. While the march appeared to be largely peaceful, authorities said there was some damage after it ended. 

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Six months of sacrifice : Hong Kong's protesters take stock

Some of them have lost their jobs, suffered life-changing injuries and even fled overseas. But six months into Hong Kong's demonstrations, pro-democracy protesters say they aren't backing down. The unprecedented movement was born on June 9, when an estimated million people took to the streets to protest a proposed bill allowing extradition to mainland China. With Beijing taking a hard line, it has since broadened into a call to halt authoritarian China's attempts to erode freedoms in the city. Six months on, the Beijing-backed government has offered few concessions and protests have turned increasingly violent, exacting a heavy toll. 

Raymond Yeung, a liberal studies teacher at the elite Diocesan Girls' School, joined the movement early and was there on June 12 when a massive protest descended into violence. Protesters broke into the forecourt of the city's legislative building, throwing objects including metal bars at police. Officers responded with rubber bullets, bean bag rounds and tear gas against their aggressors, but then turned their weapons on the huge, peaceful crowds outside the complex, igniting anger that has fuelled the protests for months. Yeung was hit in the face — to this day he's not sure if it was a rubber bullet or bean bag round — and his glasses shattered into his eyes. He was left with a serious injury to his right eye that means he now has just 30 per cent vision. He was also arrested for rioting, though he was later released. Six months on, he has no regrets. "There's not a day that passes when I don't think about how I can contribute more to the cause," he told AFP. "Money and material enjoyment are important, but no longer that important."

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Hong Kong Police End 2-Week Campus Siege

The police found no protesters during a final search of Polytechnic University, the site of some of the most violent clashes the city has se

The siege, which was punctuated by days of clashes between the police and protesters, ended quietly as university officials resumed control of the shattered campus on the southeastern side of the Kowloon Peninsula.

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Hong Kong police arrest protesters attempting to leave

A protester lowers himself down a rope from a bridge to a highway to escape from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus and from the police. Dozens of Hong Kong protesters escaped the police siege at the 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 intervention to end the crisis engulfing the city. Police said the demonstrators inside Polytechnic University had no option but to come out and surrender.

An anti-government protester uses a bow during clashes with police at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Hong Kong police fought running battles with protesters trying to break a security cordon around the university in the city, firing teargas both at activists trying to escape the besieged campus and at crowds trying to reach it from outside.

Police detain protesters and students after they tried to flee the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus. The university siege stretched into a sixth day on Friday as medics warned of a humanitarian crisis and the city prepared for weekend elections that will be a key barometer of public support for protesters.

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Hong Kong protests: about 100 still holed up at university

Carrie Lam says 600 surrendered to authorities at Polytechnic University overnight