10-04-2019, 11:21 AM
** 04-Oct-2019 World View: Hong Kong face mask ban triggers more anger
It's just past midnight on Saturday morning in Hong Kong,
and a new "emergency" law has just taken effect that makes it
illegal for anyone taking part in a protest to wear a face mask.
Violating this law can be punished with one year in jail.
When the law was announced on Friday afternoon, masses of young
people went to convenience stores and bought face masks,
and began blocking roads wearing these face masks.
Live shots from Hong Kong on the BBC show large numbers of protesters
blocking intersections after midnight, wearing face masks.
It's not known how the police will enforce the face mask rule on
Saturday. Will they start ripping people's face masks off? Will
there be mass arrests of people wearing face masks?
The protests are being led by young people who see 2047 as just around
the corner, at which time Hong Kong will lose all its autonomy and
just be another region under the violent thumb of the Chinese
Communist Party. Any young person would be wondering how he or she
could get married and bring children into the world, if it means
making their children slaves of the CCP.
---- Source:
-- Hong Kong: Face mask ban prompts thousands to protest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49939173
(BBC, 4-Oct-2019)
It's just past midnight on Saturday morning in Hong Kong,
and a new "emergency" law has just taken effect that makes it
illegal for anyone taking part in a protest to wear a face mask.
Violating this law can be punished with one year in jail.
When the law was announced on Friday afternoon, masses of young
people went to convenience stores and bought face masks,
and began blocking roads wearing these face masks.
Live shots from Hong Kong on the BBC show large numbers of protesters
blocking intersections after midnight, wearing face masks.
It's not known how the police will enforce the face mask rule on
Saturday. Will they start ripping people's face masks off? Will
there be mass arrests of people wearing face masks?
The protests are being led by young people who see 2047 as just around
the corner, at which time Hong Kong will lose all its autonomy and
just be another region under the violent thumb of the Chinese
Communist Party. Any young person would be wondering how he or she
could get married and bring children into the world, if it means
making their children slaves of the CCP.
---- Source:
-- Hong Kong: Face mask ban prompts thousands to protest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49939173
(BBC, 4-Oct-2019)
