Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy
protesters dramatically escaped a two-day
police siege at a university campus late Monday by shimmying down ropes from a bridge to waiting motorbikes, after
Beijing again warned it could intervene to end the crisis engulfing the city.
Clashes rumbled into the early hours of Tuesday between protesters and police who had threatened to use deadly force to dislodge activists holed up at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).
The university siege has become a battle of wills between Hong Kong's stretched police force and the constantly innovating protest movement.