Hong Kong police, protestors clash during rally in support of China's ethnic Uighurs

In Hong Kong, clashes broke out between police and protesters during a rally organised in support of China's ethnic Uighurs on Sunday.

 

The otherwise peaceful rally of several hundred people turned chaotic shortly after 5 pm (local time) when protesters took down the Chinese national flag from a pole in Edinburgh Place,



Central.

 

Several riot police officers arrived at the scene and then found themselves outnumbered and surrounded by protesters, who accused them of disrupting their rally. Demonstrators hurled plastic water bottles and other objects and the officers, in response, pepper-sprayed the protesters, as per a report by South China Morning Post.