More than a thousand mostly black-clad activists gathered in Hong Kong's Mo...
HONG KONG - More than a thousand mostly black-clad activists gathered in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district ahead of a protest march on Saturday, as the Chinese-controlled city braced for another weekend of anti-government demonstrations.
“I’m a little worried about whether the police force might use violent ways on the demonstrators because the route of the demonstration is a little bit narrow, and if we want to leave it might be difficult to get away from the police,” said a 20-year-old university student named Ivan.Mong Kok, a gritty working class neighborhood in the Kowloon section of the city, was the scene of some of the most violent clashes during pro-democracy protests in 2014.
“People have a right to express their opinion in a peaceful manner. We will continue to support the police and the authorities to implement rule of law here.” In Washington on Friday, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers called on the Trump administration to halt future sales of munitions and crowd-control equipment to Hong Kong’s police force, which has been accused of using excessive force against protesters.
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