Hong Kong Airport

Hong Kong airport cancels flights amid huge protest

Some of the protesters who had been occupying the airport's arrivals hall swarmed into the departures area on Monday, prompting authorities to cancel all flights and advise travellers to leave one of the world's busiest hubs.

The action came in response to a sharp increase in the level of force employed by Hong Kong's embattled police. 

Hours before the airport shutdown, two police officers elsewhere in the city had pinned a black-clad demonstrator to the concrete, one officer's knee pressing the young man's face into a pool of his own blood.