Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers packed into a park Saturday night to mourn a student who died during recent clashes as
police arrested a group of pro-democracy lawmakers, deepening the city's political crisis.
The international finance hub has been upended by five months of huge and increasingly violent pro-democracy
protests, but
Beijing has refused to give in to most of the movement's demands.
Tensions have soared since the death on Friday of Alex Chow, 22, who succumbed to head injuries sustained during a fall as police skirmished with demonstrators inside a car park last weekend.