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    According to a twitter source quoting lawyers, protesters arrested tonight are being held in an isolated holding centre north of Sheung Shui (!).


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    Quote Originally Posted by MatthieuTofu:
    According to a twitter source quoting lawyers, protesters arrested tonight are being held in an isolated holding centre north of Sheung Shui (!).
    https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status...357951488?s=21
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    Quote Originally Posted by tljose:
    Actually sources online say those petrol bombs were done by police posed as protestors.Attachment 78523
    No one charged for throwing a molotov cocktail as yet.
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    BBC had an interview with the Chinese ambassador (Zhang Ming) to EU yesterday. He described the protests as "extreme violence" and the #1 thing that bugged him was defacing the national emblem and throwing the Chinese flag in the harbour.

    He also repeated - and we hear this all the time - that HK belongs to China.
    It's obvious they are afraid of loosing HK - fear that giving in to protesters' demands will lead in that direction.

    Ideally all this should play out in Legco rather than on the streets - China won't let the debate happen there.

    What we have seen from the police is increasingly disturbing - culminating tonight (hopefully). Shooting rubber bullets at point blank range into fleeing crowds inside the subway stations. Apparently planting evidence. Not showing IDs.

    https://twitter.com/galileocheng/sta...78163140939777

    Some of the twitter clips have started to be taken down - e.g. they guy with smashed front teeth having his face pressed into a pool of blood on the ground.
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