Hong Kong High Court Denies Injunction Filed by Students After Violent Campus Clashes With Riot Police

Meanwhile, protesters receive messages of support from students in mainland China

Police fire tear gas toward protesters at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong on Nov. 12, 2019. Protesters struck the city's transport network for a second day running after police shot a young demonstrator and another man was set on fire. PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images

A Hong Kong court has rejected an emergency injunction filed by the student union of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)—the site of an intense standoff between police and protesters on Nov. 12—that sought to prevent riot police from entering the campus without a search warrant and firing crowd control equipment without the school’s approval.

Riot police reported that they fired more than 1,500 crowd control bullets and 1,567 canisters of tear gas on Nov. 12, the majority of which was on CUHK campus grounds.