Their rights Political Rights. Thanks for joining as you watching r. T. International. Shocking footage of a man being set on fire in hong kong have to getting into an argument with protesters i must warn you you may well find these images coming up now disturbing. Was the look was. Running through there was taken to hospital in a Critical Condition earlier in the day an antigovernment protest there was shot at close range by the Police Officer slater said that the manager tried to grab the officers weapon and the officer didnt intend to hurt him but the clashes between protesters and police have left more than 60 people injured. Antigovernment protests in hong kong began in june and have turned increasingly volatile since political analyst and journalist checked believes that hong kong demonstrators dont really know what they want. Protester was. Set on fire a man who basically disagreed with him this is terrible but this is not new when i was covering hong kong recently i so that peo
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