Saturday, 19 Oct 2019 08:11 PM MYT
Hardcore protesters have in recent weeks targeted mainland Chinese businesses, daubing them in graffiti and at times setting fires, while mainland Chinese living inpeople to ... assemble peacefully, march peacefully, in order to show the whole world we are still eager for the five demands,” campaigner Leung Kwok-hung said on Saturday, vowing the demonstration would go ahead.
A prayer sit-in was scheduled downtown this evening, while demonstrations yesterday were calm, with protesters forming a human chain along the metro network and many donning masks in defiance of a ban on covering faces at public rallies.Protesters are concerned that Beijing is eroding freedoms granted when Britain handed the city back to China in 1997.
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