Hong Kong protesters again flooded streets on Sunday, ignoring a police ban on the rally and setting up barricades while demanding the government meet their demands for accountability and political rights.
Protesters again flooded Hong Kong streets Sunday, ignoring a police ban on the rally and setting up barricades while demanding the government meet their demands for accountability and political rights.
Black-clad and masked protesters barricaded streets at multiple locations in Kowloon, where the city’s subway operator restricted passenger access. The protesters tore up paving stones from the sidewalk and scattered them on the road, commandeered plastic safety barriers and unscrewed metal railings to form makeshift roadblocks.
Many of the supporters of the movement wore masks in defiance of a recently introduced ban on face coverings at public gatherings, and volunteers handed more out to the crowd. “We’re using peaceful, rational, nonviolent way to voice our demands,” Figo Chan, vice convener of the Civil Human Rights Front, told reporters. “We’re not afraid of being arrested. What I’m most scared of is everyone giving up on our principles.”The group has organized some of the movement’s biggest protest marches. One of its leaders, Jimmy Sham, was attacked Wednesday by assailants wielding hammers.
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