The Hong Kong High Court has thrown out an application to challenge the government's ban of face masks at protests by lawmakers. – EPA pic, October 6, 2019.
A HONG Kong court today rejected a challenge to an emergency law criminalising protesters wearing face masks as democracy activists hit the streets again in defiance of the ban despite half the city’s subway stations remaining closed. Thousands of protesters have staged unsanctioned flashmob rallies across the strife-torn city – some vandalising subway stations and shops – after Hong Kong’s leader outlawed face coverings at protests, invoking colonial-era emergency powers not used for half a century.
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