- Title: Defiant protesters march against mask ban in Hong Kong
- Date: 5th October 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (OCTOBER 5, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING SLOGANS IN HONG KONG'S WAN CHAI DISTRICT VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING "STAND WITH HONG KONG" WHILE HOLDING UP BANNER PROTESTERS MARCHING (SOUNDBITE) (English) 29-YEAR-OLD MASKED PROTESTER UNWILLING TO GIVE NAME, SAYING: "It is not a (crime) that we wear a face mask or anything you cannot do to join the protest. We are not the rioters. But instead the Hong Kong police force is the rioters now. I mean, as you can see now, the police is not out yet, and how peaceful it is. But every time when the police force is out, then the violence starts to happen." PROTESTERS MARCHING HOLDING UP FIVE FINGERS REPRESENTING THEIR FIVE DEMANDS VARIOUS PROTESTERS MARCHING HOLDING UP BANNER MASKED PROTESTERS STANDING BY ROAD MASKED PROTESTER CROSSING ROAD PROTESTERS MARCHING SOUNDBITE (Cantonese), 60-YEAR-OLD MASKED PROTESTER, MR TONG, SAYING: "(Closing the MTR) is really impractical for the people, obviously for the protesters too, the MTR should serve the people, shouldn't it? They should serve the people, why would they not let us use the transport services. The attitude and the customer service (of the MTR) is really bad." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING SLOGANS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING, CARRYING UMBRELLAS AND SHOUTING SLOGANS
- Embargoed: 19th October 2019 09:58
- Keywords: Hong Kong protests march
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZTJADJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hundreds of masked protesters thronged the streets of Hong Kong on Saturday (October 5), many of them wearing masks in open defiance of a new government ban on covering faces during political demonstrations.
Friday's (October 4) protests across the Chinese-ruled city erupted hours after its embattled leader, Carrie Lam, invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years to ban the face masks demonstrators use to hide their identities. The night's "extreme violence" justified the use of the emergency law, Beijing-backed Lam said in a television address on Saturday.
A 29-year-old masked protester, who was unwilling to give his full name, said he felt the Hong Kong police force had themselves inflamed political tensions and provoked violence.
Hong Kong's metro system stayed shut on Saturday, paralysing transport in the Asian financial hub after a night of chaos in which police shot a teenage boy and pro-democracy protesters torched businesses and metro stations.
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