On September 28, 2014, pro-democracy activists and student leaders in Hong Kong started what would become a 79-day occupation of major roads in the city to demand universal suffrage in elections for the city’s chief executive.
Five years after the Occupy Central movement, protesters have returned to Hong Kong streets for a series of rallies and often violent protests.
Sparked by a contentious extradition bill, the 2019 unrest has dragged on for more than 100 days with no end in sight.
Here is a look at how the latest protests have the administrative crisis escalated, police and protesters changed their tactics, resulting in increasingly violent clashes.
(Photo: EPA, SCMP / Felix Wong)
