Rally-goers staging a protest in Central Hong Kong on Sunday (Dec 22). - AFP
HONG KONG: Hong Kong riot police broke up a solidarity rally for China's Uighurs on Sunday (Dec 22) -- with one officer drawing a pistol -- as the city's pro-democracy movement likened their plight to that of the Muslim minority.
The initially peaceful rally descended into chaos when a small group of protesters removed a Chinese flag from a nearby government building and tried to burn it, an AFP reporter on the scene said.
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