TEHRAN, Sept 01 -Authorities suspend trains to airport as protesters keep up pressure after night of heavy clashes with police.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are seeking to disrupt transport routes serving the city's international airport, as the territory's months-long political turmoil deepens.
Trains to the airport were suspended and traffic was congested after protesters urged the public to overwhelm road and rail links to the facility on Sunday, a day after the city was rocked by some of the most intense violence in months.
Thousands of demonstrators surrounded entrances to the airport on Sunday afternoon, before dispersing following a police intervention.
"There was no violence. Police did not use batons or tear gas. They simply charged towards the protesters, who dispersed in different directions as a result," Al Jazeera's Sarah Clarke, reporting from the airport, said.
"Nevertheless, the protesters achieved what they wanted at this stage, which is a transport chaos."
Clarke said the two main entrance points to the airport - road and railway - were both experiencing "major problems".
The protesters ave used burning barricades to block roads near the airport, while the express train and some bus services to the travel hub on the outlying island of Chek Lap Kok were suspended. Some passengers walked to the airport carrying their luggage.
Flights were not disrupted, while riot police were present inside the terminals. The airport is covered by an injunction prohibiting protesters from entering in the wake of a shutdown last month which forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and ended in ugly clashes between police and demonstrators.
Source:aljazeera
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