The siege of a Hong Kong university extended into a second day following a night of fire and ferocious clashes between riot police and protesters holed up on the campus.
Officers from the special tactical contingent, known as the “raptors”, attempted to storm the university in the early hours of Monday morning but were beaten back by volleys of petrol bombs that set the main entrance to Hong Kong Polytechnic University ablaze.
Separately, Hong Kong’s high court ruled on Monday that a controversial anti-mask law introduced by the government to curb the protests was unconstitutional, saying the restrictions it imposed went “further than is reasonably necessary”.
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