Demonstrators were required to wear numbered lanyards and were barred from wearing masks, as police monitored their march against a proposed land reclamation
Hong Kong police on Sunday permitted a small protest march under tight restrictions in one of the first demonstrations to be approved since the enactment of a sweeping national security law in 2020.
Some also criticized the restrictions on their protest, which included a maximum of 100 participants, according to a seven-page letter from police to organizers, seen by Reuters. Responding to the protest, the city’s Development Bureau said the project was intended to “support the daily needs of the community.”
“Some lawbreakers may mix into the public meeting and procession to disrupt public order or even engage in illegal violence,” the police warned in their letter. The last of Hong Kong’s COVID restrictions was scrapped this year, following China’s decision to end its “zero-COVID” policies.Since the China-imposed national security law, enacted in June, 2020, in response to protracted pro-democracy protests in 2019, authorities have clamped down on freedoms and arrested scores of opposition politicians and activists.
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