Situation in Mong Kok on Friday night, Oct. 17, 2014. Benjamin Chasteen Twitter/Epoch Times
Cleared by Hong Kong Police, Mong Kok Protesters Return (+Photos)
HONG KONG--Police and protesters got into violent confrontations, engaged in sometimes comical games of cat and mouse, and finally reached an uneasy standoff on Friday night in the working class district of Mong Kok, with the result that by the early morning hours on Saturday pro-democracy activists, and perhaps some who just came out for a good time, had seized control of a main thoroughfare after their long-term encampment was ripped apart by police in the morning.
Pro-democracy protesters stand off with the police after they were trying all night to shutdown parts of Argyle Street and Nathan Road in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, on Oct. 18, 2014. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
