Human rights violations on the rise in Hong Kong as rioters escalate violence

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When Celine Ma, a well-known Hong Kong actress, spoke out against the protestors and took pictures of those who were vandalizing a bank outlet at Mong Kok in Kowloon on Sunday, she was outnumbered, surrounded, sprayed in the face, punched, shoved to the ground and had a glass bottle smashed over her head by an angry mob who were chanting "freedom" and "democracy."

She received 11 stitches at the hospital after she pled with Robert Ovadia, a journalist and news anchor who was covering the violence and trying to interview her for 7News Australia, to escort her to the nearby police station.

Other cases of people speaking out and getting brutally assaulted played out across Hong Kong after demonstrations, stemming from the now withdrawn amendments to two ordinances concerning the transfer of fugitives, turned violent and ugly.

Over the weekend, an older and barebacked man was pounded to the ground by stick-wielding rioters when he was arguing with a crowd, according to a video clip widely circulated online.

Fu Guohao, a journalist for the Global Times, a Chinese newspaper, was tortured and placed under rioters' unlawful imprisonment in their illegal occupation of the Hong Kong International Airport in August.