
Businesses, both worldwide and local, in Hong Kong have also faced pressure and accusations of acting in concert or sympathizing with the protesters.
Their demands have broadened to include calls for an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality, and an amnesty for all arrested protesters.
Police, meanwhile, condemned the "unlawful assemblies" and said several officers had been injured during the weekend. Elsewhere in the city, police were captured on video apparently firing crowd control weapons toward protesters at point-blank range in enclosed spaces.
Tang called on protesters to stop using violence to disturb Hong Kong's social order and he hoped that the Hong Kong society can soon restore calm.
"Hong Kong's radical demonstrators have repeatedly used extremely risky tools to attack police officers, which already constitutes a serious violent crime, and also shows the first signs of terrorism emerging", Yang Guang, a spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said at a press briefing, according to BBC.
Hong Kong has been rocked by anti-government protests for months.
The government argued the amendments would "plug the loopholes" and prevent the city of Hong Kong becoming a safe haven for criminals - but hundreds of thousands of people opposed these changes and came out in force to share their message.
Separately, Hong Kong police have also unveiled a water cannon vehicle as a new tool to combat the protests. But proposed amendments to the bill would also allow Hong Kong to send people to both Taiwan and the mainland to face charges.
More news: Samsung launches 108 million pixel image sensor with XiaomiHong Kong airport officials will restart flights at 6 a.m. Tuesday after operations were shut down Monday when thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators occupied the main terminal.
"A guy came and told us either we leave the airport or just stay at the airport but he said staying at the airport was no use".
While China is Hong Kong's most important trading partner, the city is an global business and financial hub, and the economy is already showing signs of hurting as a result of the protests.
Eleven-year-old Janice Ly and her mother, Ping Fam, from Surrey, B.C., were scheduled to be on the only flight to Canada that was cancelled during the mass pro-democracy protests.
The demonstrations in Hong Kong are now into their tenth week.
China's aviation regulator has issued new rules requiring that it submit lists of staff flying to the mainland or through its airspace and banning those involved with "illegal protests" in Hong Kong.
But at the station in central Hong Kong, from where the train departs, groups are congregating around flight displays, and looking for information on their phones, trying to figure out their next steps. But Hong Kongers have long accused Beijing of encroaching on this autonomy since the handover, spurring protests and unrest.
Mike Wong, outreach coordinator of the San Francisco chapter of anti-war group Veterans for Peace, told Radio Sputnik's Loud and Clear Monday that numerous protesters in the streets today are too young to remember that era, and have been force-fed an anamorphic image of the West, the United States and British colonial rule that is driving them to revolt against Beijing.
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