Hong Kong, August 10: Hong Kong was propping for another unpredictable end of the week, with pro-democracy demonstrations arranged over the territory on Saturday, including one at the international airport terminal for a subsequent day.
Progressively brutal dissents have dove Hong Kong into its most serious political emergency for a considerable length of time, representing a genuine test to the central government in Beijing, according to Reuters news reports.
Protesters made arrangements for Saturday incorporating one in Tai Po, a town in the north of the city, and social events of elderly Hong Kongers and their families.
Hong Kong’s airplane terminal was likewise expecting a protest that is set to proceed on Sunday. A gathering of 1,000 activists occupied the airport’s corridor on Friday however did not disturb flights.
Hong Kong’s pioneer Carrie Lam on Friday said the economy was being undermined by the dissents, which started in June and have turned out to be progressively vicious.
Thousands of lawyers in Hong Kong on Wednesday held silent march to call on the government led by pro-Chinese Carrie Lam to safeguard the city’s independence, as head of China’s Macau affairs office cautioned the territory struggling its biggest crisis since 1997 when it returned from British rule to Chinese rule.
The lawyers, wearing black, summoned for the silent demonstration to Justice Place from the court of final appeal, a few hours after police fired tear gases on late Tuesday to disperse the gathering in Sham Shui Po, according to Al-Jazeera news reports.
“We are here to protect the rule of law,” Hong Kong legislator Martin Lee declared after the march. “The rule of law means, most importantly, that we are all equal under the law,” Lee added.
Lawyers fear the justice department’s prosecutions of detained protesters was taking a political slant after some 44 protesters were charged with rioting – which puts suspects in a 10-year jail term.
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