Hong Kong's First Authorized Protest in Years Held Under Strict Police Surveillance

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Hong Kong's First Authorized Protest in Years Held Under Strict Police Surveillance
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Hong Kong police allowed a small protest march against a proposed land reclamation and rubbish processing project, under tight restrictions, including a maximum of 100 participants, numbered lanyards, and a ban on masks. The protest was one of the first demonstrations to be approved since the enactment of a sweeping national security law in 2020. Applications for other protests, including a candlelight vigil on June 4 to commemorate the victims of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, have been denied on grounds related to COVID social-distancing.

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