As Hong Kong's protests continue into their sixth month, here is a collection of photos captured by Kyodo News photographers as the city-wide unrest escalated over recent weeks.
(Police fire tear gas at protesters who had gathered for a demonstration in Causeway Bay on Nov. 2)
(Entrance of China's state-run Xinhua News Agency vandalized in Hong Kong on Nov. 2)
(A protester with a banner of the slogan "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" at a Nov. 9 rally mourning the death of a university student who had succumbed to to injuries sustained in a fall in a multistory car park during clashes between police and protesters nearby)
(People lay flowers, light candles and hang paper cranes to mourn the university student's death)
(Police gather at the scene where an officer shot a protester in the abdomen with a live round earlier in the day on Nov. 11)
(Police attempt to disperse demonstrators who gathered to protest the shooting earlier in the day on Nov. 11)
(People escape into a high-end mall in Central, the city's financial district, after police fired tear gas to dispurse the rally on Nov. 11)
(Riot police walk down the middle of a street in Central on Nov. 14 as city-wide protests crippled transportation for the fourth day in a row)
(Protesters take to the streets in Central during lunch hour on Nov. 14 with arms raised and palms open, the gesture representing the "Five demands, not one less" slogan)
(Protesters pile bricks into mini Stonehenge-style formations on a barricaded street outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Nov. 14)
(A torched car and other barricades are left on a road to the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shatin on Nov. 16)
(Protesters gather on a barricaded street to guard against police entry into Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Nov. 16)
(Demonstrators face off against police near Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Nov. 17)
(Police fire water cannon with blue dye towards protesters at Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Nov. 17)
(Toll gates at the Cross Harbour Tunnel near Hong Kong Polytechnic University are vandalized as seen on Nov. 17)
(Protesters operate an improvised slingshot during a confrontation with police at Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Nov. 17)
(Protesters throw petrol bombs at police near Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Nov. 18)
(An area in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus is on fire in the early hours of Nov. 18)
(Riot police prepare to disperse protesters near Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Nov. 18)
(A riot police officer fires tear gas at protesters near Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the early hours of Nov. 19)
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