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HONG KONG, Dec 1 — In the final days of a police siege at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University, a lone protester stalked the darkened corridors, determined to outlast the authorities waiting to arrest him. The man, who asked only to be identified as Michael, was among the final few dozen...

In this picture taken in the early hours of November 28, 2019, a pro-democracy protester identified as ‘Michael’, who was among the final few dozen protesters who barricaded themselves inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University, uses his phone as he sits inside a campus meeting room where he slept, as police laid siege around the campus. — AFP pic

But Michael was determined to stay, adamant that he had committed no crime and had every right to remain on campus. It resembled the home of a hoarder, but he didn’t seem to notice as he sat at a small desk, his sweater hood pulled up over his head, sipping from a bottle of purloined red wine. While speaking to AFP, an unexpected noise prompted a moment of fear, and the lights in the meeting room were quickly turned off to avoid detection by any arriving police. None came.

 

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