Hundreds of people, including journalists, on Sunday staged a protest march in Hong Kong over the alleged police beatings of three local TV news journalists on September 4 while covering the recent unrest in Western China.

Demonstrators rallied outside a city police station before marching to the local offices of China’s central government to demand an official investigation into the incident. The protests were organised by the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA).

The three journalists, who work for the TVB and Now TV channels in Hong Kong, were covering protests by the Han Chinese majority in the troubled city of Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.