Battle Over Road Ends in Arrests, Clearance in Hong Kong

A night of back-and-forth occupation and seizure of a key artery in Hong Kong ended with an early morning police raid on Dec. 1, ejecting the last group of tired and bedraggled protesters from Lung Wo Road, the main road outside the headquarters of the government and the office of the chief executive.
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Battle Over Road Ends in Arrests, Clearance in Hong Kong
Demonstrators hold umbrellas, a symbol of the pro-democracy protests, amid a clash with police during the protest near the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Nov. 30, 2014. Protesters want free elections in 2017 for Hong Kong's leader, whom Beijing says must be vetted through a loyalist committee. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
Matthew Robertson
11/30/2014
Updated:
12/1/2014

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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.
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