early leaving hong kong because they say they re being targeted in escalating protests against beijing s influence over the territory local students at hong kong chinese university have armed themselves with weapons and a bit to keep police off their campus last night police and students fought for control of a bridge at the university police chief has warned that hong kong society is on the brink of total breakdown and our correspondent in mathias bullinger sent us this summary from hong kong. a tense calm has prevailed on this campus and on this bridge during that day and the even ing the day before police were coming in from this bridge were trying to enter the campus but they were met with resistance from the protesters this was by far the most violent battle that i ve witnessed in all these months of covering the protests with police shooting hundreds of canisters of tear gas and rubber bullets to the protesters and the protesters hurling hundreds
a recent spate of high profile disappearance cases have attracted international attention being disappeared as the people in china call it seems to be a common practice dissidents are often held at secret detention facilities and usually be handed over to the judicial system after a confession has been extracted. mathias bullinger met a human rights lawyer who disappeared for six months before he was jailed for subversion here s his story. detention room is like a cooling chambered with a metal door escape from this room isn t possible. thomas. was one of two hundred human rights lawyers chinese authorities rounded up in july two thousand and fifteen. and the everything inside is wrapped in soft material the walls the table it so you can t kill yourself. i didn t see daylight for half