Students Vent Fury Over Police Campus 'intrusions'

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2019-10-06 HKT 19:03

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  • Students vent fury over police campus 'intrusions'

Students of two of the city's universities condemned the police on Sunday for allegedly entering their campuses without permission.

A vice president of Baptist University, Andy Lee, said police entered the institution's campus at Kowloon Tong to chase after a protester at around 4pm.

No arrest was made within the campus.

But in a letter to students, Lee said officers had arrested five students outside the campus. He said the university had contacted the police and was providing legal support to the students.

Lee appealed to students to stay calm and away from danger amid the worsening situation in Hong Kong.

The union's president, Keith Fong, said riot police had argued with students outside the campus and shoved them with their shields.

Meanwhile, Chinese University said MTR officials had called the police over facilities at University Station being vandalised in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Officers arrived around 2am and intercepted nine students, but no arrests were made.

The university's student union, meanwhile, said police confronted students who were putting up posters connected to the anti-government movement near the MTR station.

It said officers pointed their batons at students and threatened to pepper spray them.

The union also accused the university's security guards of failing to protect the students.

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