Mainland Chinese students have begun fleeing Hong Kong campuses over security fears, police and university officials said Wednesday, as the city's seething political crisis saw some of its worst violence this week.

Mainland China students flee Hong Kong over protest violence fears

Ten weeks of confrontations between police and protesters have plunged Hong Kong into turmoil, and present the biggest popular challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012. The protests began as opposition to a now-suspended bill that would have allowed suspects to be extradited to mainland China and have swelled into wider calls for democracy.

Hong Kong still remains on the boil

Timeline of Hong Kong political movements

There is no stopping for the Hong Kong protests. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in a series of demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill over the last few weeks. But what are the economic impacts of the protest.

Economic impact of Hong Kong protests

Prominent activist Denise Ho brought the issue of protests in Hong Kong to the United Nations in Geneva on Monday, saying China was tightening its grip on the territory and that its autonomy and democratic freedoms were slipping away. Beijing's delegation twice interrupted singer and producer Ho, who is banned in mainland China, as she was delivering her speech, invoking "point of order".

Hong Kong singer-activist brings protest to UN rights body, urges action

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the extradition bill that sparked the territory's biggest political crisis in decades was dead, admitting that the government's work on the bill had been a "total failure". The bill, which would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China to face trial, sparked huge and at times violent street protests and plunged the former British colony into turmoil. In mid-June Lam responded to huge protests by suspending the bill, but that move failed to mollify critics, who continued to demonstrate against the bill and call for Lam's resignation. Hong Kong was returned to China from Britain in 1997.

Hong Kong bows to public pressure, drops extradition bill

Hundreds of protesters faced off with riot police early on Monday, the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule, ahead of an annual rally that is expected to draw huge crowds amid widespread anger over a controversial extradition bill. Police sprayed pepper spray to disperse the demonstrators in the latest protests over the extradition bill, which would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party. The bill, which the government was forced to suspend after the largest and most violent protests in decades, has plunged the Asian financial center into political turmoil.

Protesters scuffle ahead of Hong Kong handover anniversary ceremony

Anniversary Protests Begin In Hong Kong

In this videos, Journalist, Atul Aneja speaks to WION over Hong Kong protests.

Hong Kong protesters demand complete withdrawal of bill

Hong Kong on Sunday, June 16 woke up to a calm morning before anti-extradition law protesters take to the street once again to convey their stance against the controversial bill. Watch this video to know more.

Hong Kong protesters: Chief Executive Lam must go

Hong Kong on Sunday (June 16) woke up to a calm morning before anti-extradition law protesters take to the street once again to convey their stance against the controversial bill.

Hong Kong | The Extradition bill | The march of mass protest and anger

Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to voice their opposition to government-sponsored legislation that would allow people to be extradited to mainland China to face charges.

Massive extradition bill protest fills HK streets

Hong Kong witnessed the largest protest since its 1997 handover to China on Sunday as huge crowds massed against plans to allow extraditions to the mainland, a proposal that has plunged the city's pro-Beijing leaders into a crisis.

'Million march': Huge Hong Kong protest against China extradition law

Lam Wing-kee in an interview on Thursday vowed to break bail and refused to return to the mainland

Protests in Hong Kong over bookseller detention in China

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