HONG KONG – The city’s metro partially reopened on Monday after violent clashes overnight.
Demonstrators were arrested under the new emergency laws, which came into effect on Friday, after some of the most violent clashes in four months shut the city down on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched peacefully on Sunday, wearing face masks in defiance of colonial-era emergency powers that threaten them with a maximum of one year in prison for hiding their faces.
What started as opposition to a now-withdrawn extradition bill has grown into a pro-democracy movement against what is seen as Beijing’s increasing grip on the city, undermining its “one country, two systems” status promised when Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997.(Reuters)
