TIL Desk/World/Hong Kong/ Hong Kong pupils made human chains at schools early Monday and protesters disrupted rush-hour trains as the city’s pro-democracy movement returned to action after a weekend which brought some of the worst violence in three months of anti-government protests.
The global financial hub is in the grip of an unprecedented crisis as a largely leaderless movement has drawn millions on to the streets to protest against what they see as an erosion of freedoms and increasing interference in their affairs by Beijing.
China, which stands behind Hong Kong’s government, has reacted with intimidatory tactics, including pressure on the city’s businesses and well-publicised troop movements and exercises near the border. A state news agency, warned “the end is coming” for the protest movement, without giving further details.
Early Monday protesters dressed in their signature black stood at doorways of trains, stopping them from closing, at a series of stations on the underground system, briefly disrupting an arterial network that has become a target of their activities.
