Hong Kong: Top China Official Lands Amid Tight Security
May 17, 2016, 11:50 AM
A heavy security presence effectively quashed plans by democracy activists to gather in the streets of Hong Kong on Tuesday to decry the arrival of senior Chinese official Zhang Dejiang.
"We are just protesters, but they're treating us like terrorists," 22-year-old political activist Keith Chan said, standing outside of a police barricade manned by several officers. "The police are so afraid of Zhang Dejiang seeing us protest.