Protesters in Hong Kong have trampled a Chinese flag, vandalized a subway station and set a
fire across a wide street, as pro-democracy demonstrations took a violent turn once again.
Sunday's action began peacefully, as
protesters filled a shopping mall and, in a new twist, folded paper "origami" cranes that they tied onto a large rigging that they assembled in the mall in the Shatin district.
Some put a Chinese flag on the floor and took turns running over it, before defacing it and putting it in a dumpster outside, which they then pushed into a nearby river.