Scuffles as Hong Kong students escalate democracy strike
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 23, 2014 - Hong Kong students mobbed the city's leader Tuesday in angry scenes as they took their anti-Beijing strike to government headquarters, where more than 1,000 protested against China's refusal to grant full democracy. Organisers said 13,000 university students massed at a campus in the north of the semi-autonomous city on Monday to launch a week-long boycott of classes, a strong showing that b ... more

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