Hong Kong Protester Beaten by Police

Hong Kong Protester Beaten by Police

Video footage showing the apparent beating of a defenceless protester outside a government building in Hong Kong has led human rights activists, politicians and movement leaders to condemn the police’s most brutal crackdown for a week.

 

At least 45 people were arrested today as officers resorted to brute force to clear a main road in the Chinese-run city, with barricades, banners and tents torn down and removed.

 

But in an incident which is likely to prove a flashpoint for clashes in weeks to come, local TV cameras caught a large group of plainclothes officers dragging one protester around the back of a government office block where, presumably believing they were out of sight, the policemen appeared to punch, kick, and beat the man with a baton.

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