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Hong Kong police fire pepper ball rounds at protesters
HONG KONG, May 27, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Hong Kong police fired pepper ball rounds on Wednesday at protesters in the city’s commercial district ahead of a debate in the legislature over a law that bans insulting China’s national anthem.
A few hundred protesters chanted slogans during a lunchtime rally in the city’s Central district but dispersed when officers fired multiple rounds of irritant-filled pellets, AFP reporters on the scene said.
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