Mass demonstrations continued in Hong Kong today, which started peacefully but turned violent again.
The crowd initially protested in two parts of the city, then joined together and attacked the police station with stones, using slingshots.
Authorities said many windows were broken in the police building.
After the police fired tear gas, the black-clad and yellow-helmeted protesters moved to a part of Hong Kong with luxury stores.
There, the police repeatedly threw tear gas and mostly succeeded in suppressing the crowd, but some protesters resisted and fought back, throwing canisters with tear gas, eggs and other things they could get their hands on at the police.
Demonstrators today erected barricades and blocked roads and completely blocked the approaches to the main tunnel in Hong Kong for half an hour, causing hundreds of cars and buses to stand still.
The police announced that they arrested 20 demonstrators today because of the disturbances that broke out after yesterday's protest walks.
The police stated that some of them threw "Molotov cocktails" and threw bricks, bottles and other objects at the officers, refusing to disperse.
The protest movement in Hong Kong, an autonomous Chinese territory, shows no signs of abating even after two months of demonstrations where citizens demand direct elections and greater government accountability.
Demonstrators claim that the government in Beijing and the Hong Kong government of Carrie Lam are reducing Hong Kong's civil liberties and political autonomy, which was promised in 1997 when Great Britain returned the administration of the territory to China.
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