Hong Kong Protesters Issue Demands, Begin Leaving University

A demonstrator raises his hands during a protest in the financial district in Hong Kong on Nov. 15, 2019. Protesters who have barricaded themselves in a Hong Kong university partially cleared a road they were blocking and demanded that the government commit to holding local elections on Nov. 24. Achmad Ibrahim/AP

HONG KONG—Many of the protesters who had barricaded themselves in a Hong Kong university this week began to leave on Nov. 15 after temporarily clearing a road they had blocked and demanding that the government commit to going ahead with local elections on Nov. 24.

It wasn’t immediately clear why the protesters at the Chinese University of Hong Kong were leaving, or where they might go next. Some remained but in much smaller numbers.