- Title: Hong Kong protesters march in the rain
- Date: 6th October 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (OCTOBER 6, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WALKING PAST POSTER OF LEADER CARRIE LAM WITH CARICATURE OF HITLER-ESQUE MUSTACHE PROTESTERS WALKING MAN WITH PAPER BAG ON HIS HEAD CHATING FEET WALKING (SOUNDBITE) (Cantonese) PROTESTER MARTIN WONG, 49, SAYING: "Even when students were getting injured, she (Carrie Lam) doesn't care to console them like a parent. I'm moved by all these students who came out, to speak out against the government. But then now, she came out with this mask ban under the emergency ordinance, she is simply walking all over us." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WALKING PAST VARIOUS OF UMBRELLAS MOVING PAST
- Embargoed: 20th October 2019 09:40
- Keywords: Hong Kong protesters rain
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZYJ3UV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hong Kong protesters marched in the rain on Sunday (October 6) while wearing face masks, in defiance against a ban on them that started on Saturday (October 5) at midnight.
Hong Kong's rail operator reopened part of its metro system on Sunday after an unprecedented shutdown, but kept many typically busy stations closed, as the Chinese-ruled city braces for large demonstrations expected later in the day.
Participants took part in two major protests, one on the island and another on the Kowloon peninsula.
Violent protests had erupted across the Asian financial center soon after Lam wielded the colonial-era powers for the first time in more than 50 years to order the ban in hopes of curbing months of unrest.
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