Thursday, 09 Apr 2020 06:50 PM MYT
Partially overturning a lower court’s ruling, a three-judge panel said that while the government had the right to ban the wearing of masks at unlawful assemblies, a ban on masks at legal public gatherings was unconstitutional. “If the meeting and procession remain peaceful and orderly, it is difficult to see the justification for imposing a restriction on the freedom of demonstration by way of prohibition of wearing facial coverings,” the Court of Appeal said.
But in a partial victory for the city government, the court said its overall right to invoke the Emergency Regulations Ordinance was constitutional in time of “public danger”, overruling critics who said the ERO was itself unconstitutional.Masks have long been common in Hong Kong for when people are sick, or fear getting sick in public. That has become even more pronounced this year with most of the city’s 7.
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