Last night students marched from Tamar Park, Admiralty to the Lower Albert Road entrance of the chief executive’s official residence, the Government House. Student leaders, who did not apply for police authorization, estimate that approximately 4000 people joined the march, though AFP put the number at around 2000 and the SCMP counted 1200 at the start.
The marchers reaching Lower Albert Road and were stalled temporarily by the police.
They students started assembling at 8pm in Admiralty and began the march at 9pm. They did not reach the Government House until around midnight.
Police running across the road to help control the bottleneck of marchers.
Policemen speaking to the crowd over loudspeakers.
The reporters, most of which were waiting on Lower Albert Road, swarmed the front of the march when the giant CY the Vampire Chief Executive sign showed up.
A policewoman, stood atop a stepladder, talking over a loudspeaker.
Policemen had these large rolled-up signs ready to go in backpacks.
Pro-democracy LegCo member Leung Kwok-hung, better known as “Long Hair”, was present.
The banner says: “Hope lies within the people, change begins through fighting”.
Students held banners representing their respective universities or clubs.
A sign demanding that there be civil nomination for the candidates of the next chief executive election or that CY Leung step down.
Though the vast majority of the crowd was composed of young students, there was a small contingent of older activists.
Holding up one of the many banners visible that night.
This elderly man helped to carry the megaphones that blared the voices of the student leaders. Being a young man, and having been yelling all night, one leader’s voice kept cracking, causing the crowd to giggle and erupt into cheers of support.
The long line of marcheslowly approached the gates of the Government House.
As the march came to a standstill, with the students not being able to go past the house’s gates, people began to rest. This man is using megaphone as a chair.
Students camped out in front of the residence until 8am this morning.
Text/Photos: Laurel Chor
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