Hong Kong Protesters Disperse After Causing China New Grief
- Demonstrators leave after six-hour seige of police building
- Thousands rallied Wednesday in plea for global support at G-20
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Hong Kong protesters dispersed early Thursday after a six-hour siege of the city’s police headquarters, as opponents of the Beijing-backed government attempted to put their case on the global agenda at the Group of 20 summit in Japan.
Several thousand demonstrators surrounded the Hong Kong Police Force’s building in Wan Chai after attending a larger, peaceful rally nearby to air complaints about the local government and a now-suspended bill that would ease extraditions to China. The scores of protesters who remained into the early morning hours left after they were confronted by police in riot gear around 4 a.m., the South China Morning Post newspaper said.