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Added on the 22/02/2020 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Hong Kong's leader John Lee announces that the city will fully scrap the mask mandate: "I have an announcement to make, the mask mandate will be fully scrapped starting tomorrow, 1st March." SOUNDBITE
Tear gas is fired in Hong Kong's Central district near a popular nightclub district where thousands of protesters had gatecrashed Halloween celebrations donning Halloween masks lampooning the city's pro-Beijing leaders in defiance of an emergency law that bans face coverings. IMAGES
Hong Kong police beef up security and block access to Lan Kwai Fong, one of the city's most popular party streets and the traditional venue for the largest Halloween party in town, as democracy protesters don Halloween masks lampooning pro-Beijing leaders. IMAGES
Large crowds of Hong Kongers defy a police ban and began an illegal march on Sunday, their numbers swollen by anger over the recent stabbing and beating of two pro-democracy protesters. IMAGES