Hong Kong: Riot police making more arrests; tear gas fired at Tai Sin

Hong Kong protesters are claiming that the riot police is making more arrests as protests continue to choke the region. There have also been reports that tear gas has been fired on protesters in Tai Sin again.

Hong Kong has been hit by seven weeks of mass protest rallies -- some of which have ended in violence -- triggered by a controversial bill which would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.

They have evolved into calls for wider democratic reforms and a halt to sliding freedoms in the most significant challenge to Beijing's rule since the city's 1997 handover. Recent weeks have seen a dramatic surge in the level of violence used by both protesters and police who have repeatedly fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse projectile-throwing crowds.