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Pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong continue outside the police headquarters after footage is broadcast showing police officers beating and kicking a handcuffed protester.

Six Hong Kong police officers are removed from their current duties after footage is broadcast showing them beating and kicking a handcuffed pro-democracy protester.

They tried to force them out with tear gas. They tried to scare them out with talk of ‘dire consequences’. Now Hong Kong’s police have quietly moved in to strip away barricades.

Demonstrations continue in Hong Kong after police use sledgehammers and chainsaws to dismantle pro-democracy barricades near government offices and the city’s financial centre.

Activists involved in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests talk about their fight for democracy, their hopes – and their fears. Filmed and edited by Raul Gallego Abellan.

Beijing-born novelist Diane Wei Liang tells Channel 4 News that despite worldwide publicity for their cause, Hong Kong’s protesters have not achieved very much.

The main protest site in Hong Kong occupies a large inner-city motorway as well as side streets, bridges and squares and it has been turned into an extraordinary, open-air art gallery.

Will demonstrators return to work or stay out to prolong their protest? As China stiffens its tone, Hong Kong’s chief executive mulls a momentous decision.

Protester numbers dwindle in Hong Kong as the pro-Beijing government demands people clear the streets and go back to work next week.

Thousands of rival protesters face off in Hong Kong resulting in 19 arrests, prompting fears that the unrest could take a violent turn.

I am standing next to a hundred or so student protestors who look very young and very scared. Just 15 metres or so away are hundreds of angry people shaking their fists and screaming at them.

Leaders of a pro-democracy student group in Hong Kong postpone talks with government officials after demonstrators were involved in scuffles with opponents.

Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying says he will not step down in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations – but agrees to hold talks with protest leaders.

The underlining concern here is that a rapid escalation of the protests may provoke the authorities – and in particular the Chinese government – into using force against the demonstrators.