Student leaders Joshua
Wong and Lester Shum were arrested in Hong Kong along with
scores of other pro-democracy demonstrators after authorities
cleared barricades and tents from the Mongkok district of Hong
Kong Wednesday.
More than 80 people have been jailed in the former British
colony in the last two days in what could represent a turning
point in the fight to wrestle greater political freedom from
Beijing's control.
In the second day of operations to clear the blue-collar
neighborhood of Mongkok, the flash point of clashes, police in
helmets, some equipped with pepper spray and tear gas, removed
metal barricades, tents, canopies and other obstructions.
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