Amnesty International Condemns Police Aggression in Hong Kong Protests

A policeman fires tear gas to disperse protesters during a demonstration in the district of Yuen Long in Hong Kong on July 27, 2019. Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images

Violence again erupted in Hong Kong’s Yuen Long on the evening of July 27 after hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered for a peaceful march in the afternoon to oppose an attack a week earlier by suspected triad members at the local metro station.

Amnesty International issued a statement following the violence, saying that the actions of the local police had been “unacceptable.”