page_title: Timeline of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests (September 2019)
section_title: MTR station protests and conflicts
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests (September 2019) / Events / MTR station protests and conflicts
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 9月6日有香港市民在港铁太子站大堂静坐，要求港铁交出831示威者被打伤事件的监控录像
context_page_description: This is a list of September 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
context_section_description: Daily demonstrations and vandalism occurred at the MTR stations as part of a non-co-operation movement. Additional protests were held in stations such as Prince Edward and Po Lam due to the alleged collusion of MTR and the police. In specific, rumours circulated that the police had killed suspected protesters on 31 August arrest in the Prince Edward station, thus protesters demands MTR to publish the closed-circuit television footage of that night. Witnesses had alleged that at least three seriously injured people were missing in the Prince Edward station on 31 August. Two people who claimed to be relatives of the missing people, told Hong Kong Free Press that the police had killed several people inside the station.
  On 4 September, an off-duty MTR station supervisor was injured in Po Lam station by the protesters. Several ticket machines and entry gates were also vandalised. The railway operator strongly condemned the attacks.
  On 5 September, tension rose near Hang Hau station when a group of protesters confronted the riot police. Protesters shouted anti-police chants and shone lasers into the station. The police's attempt to search the nearby area provoked residents of a nearby housing estate who were angered by the disturbance. On the same day, the police arrested some protesters in Tuen Mun whom they suspected had planned to vandalise Light Rail there.
  Flashmobs besieged police stations as well as MTR stations on 6 September. At midnight, MTR announced that Mong Kok station and Yau Ma Tei station were closed due to vandalism, while Prince Edward station was closed due to the amassing of protesters.
  On 7 September, an apparently innocent secondary school student was injured in the head at the hands of police in the Tai Po Market station and was charged for "Unlawful assembly". According to Cable TV, he was a mere bystander while people around him vandalised.  Civil Rights Observer condemned the police for using batons to hit the suspects during the arrests, saying it was unnecessary and in breach of police guidelines. On the same day, some protesters staged sit-ins inside two malls owned by MTR – Citylink Plaza, which is in the podium of Sha Tin station) and Telford Plaza in the podium of Kowloon Bay station) – demanding the railway corporation to release the CCTV footage during the 31 August police operation. Protesters later moved from to New Town Plaza and began a confrontation with the police after a protester had been arrested inside Sha Tin station. Protesters continued to place white flowers at one of the exits of Prince Edward station and besieged the Mong Kok police station at 7 September night.
  During the march on 8 September, at least four MTR stations were vandalised by protesters, including Central station, which was set on fire. In the Exit D2 of Causeway Bay station, police also threw a tear gas grenade at journalists despite protesters having already left the scene. The next day, Hong Kong Journalists Association and Hong Kong Press Photographers Association jointly condemned police violence, especially the targeting of journalists.
  On 10 September morning, a group of unknown vandalised the flowers that citizens placed on the exits of the Prince Edward station. 2 journalists were injured by the vandals when following them to a footbridge near Mong Kok Road. After MTR, the Fire Department, the Hospital Authority and the police tried to debunk the rumour regarding the Prince Edward station incident at noon, more citizens to place flowers on the exits of the Prince Edward station in the afternoon. They also declared that MTR's explanation was unacceptable.
  On 13 September, it was reported that MTR planned to hire former members of the Brigade of Gurkhas in Hong Kong to tackle the non-co-operation movement, especially non-payment of travel fee. According to CEO Jacob Kam, they are hired because inability to understand Cantonese foul language, thus being unable to be taunted by the protesters. Hong Kong Unison, a local NGO for ethnic minority, criticised the hiring of Gurkha due to their language inability a
caption: Protester sitting on a concourse of the Prince Edward station, 6 September
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