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Hong Kong police fire pepper ball rounds at protesters

Hong Kong riot police conduct operations to clear away people gathered in the Central district of downtown Hong Kong on May 27, 2020, as the city's legislature debates 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. - AFPHong Kong riot police conduct operations to clear away people gathered in the Central district of downtown Hong Kong on May 27, 2020, as the city's legislature debates 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. - AFP

HONG KONG: 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. - AFP