China condemns violence, supports Hong Kong govt and police to 'severely punish illegal violent elements'

HONG KONG - Hong Kong's protests have plunged the city into its biggest political crisis in decades, posing the biggest popular challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power.

The protest march's starting point outside Sogo department store in Causeway Bay was a sea of umbrellas. Many protesters turned up wearing surgical masks or using other items such as towels or party masks to cover their face, despite a mask ban that has come into effect since Saturday. Surgical masks were also given out along the march route from Causeway Bay to Central.

Hong Kong's Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung wrote in a blog post on Sunday that the current"precarious situation", which endangered public safety, left no timely solution but the anti-mask law. He urged people to oppose violence ahead of grassroots district council elections set for Nov 24. On Sunday, the metro system partially reopened after it was completely shut the day before in an unprecedented shutdown.

In total, 45 out of 93 MTR stations were opened on Sunday morning, but services will end at 9pm, more than three hours earlier than normal, to allow time for repairs to be carried out. BID TO OVERTURN BAN Pro-democracy lawmakers were seeking an emergency injunction on Sunday in a bid to overturn the face mask ban and declare the emergency powers invalid because they bypass the city's legislature.

"This could be the very last constitutional fight on our part. In the name of law, they are trying to hurt the people and they try to crush the opposition," he said."If this emergency law just gets a pass just like that, Hong Kong will be deemed into a very black hole." Meanwhile, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority on Sunday rubbished rumours about the authority implementing a new regulation to cap the daily amount of cash withdrawal from banks.

Violent protests erupted across the city on Friday night after Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam invoked a colonial-era emergency powers - the Emergency Regulations Ordinance - to ban face masks at protests.

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