Hong Kong - Several people were injured Friday in a rowdy protest in Hong Kong against the 11-year jail term handed down to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in Beijing, police said. A group of around 20 people including pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung tried to force their way into the Beijing Liaison Office in Hong Kong, China's unofficial embassy in the former British colony.
Protesters scuffled with police and security guards at the building in Hong Kong's Western district and at least four people were injured, including a police officer and a security guard.
Ambulances were called to the scene to take the injured to hospital, a police spokesman said. Leung said at least one of the protesters was among the injured.
The protest was staged in response to the 11-year jail term handed down Friday morning to 53-year-old dissident Liu Xiaobo for allegedly inciting subversion of state power.
Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 but retains political and judicial freedoms denied to people elsewhere in China under a "one country, two systems" arrangement.
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