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TheHongKongpoliceonOctober18,2019rejectedtheCivilHumanRightsFront’sapplicationtomarchagainstthegovernment’smaskbanonSunday,October20.MayaWang,seniorChinaresearcheratHumanRightsWatch,said:“TheHongKongpoliceareincreasinglyrejectingprotestapplications,evenfromgroupswithatrackrecordoforganizingpeacefulprotests.Peopleareleftwiththechoiceofeitherstayinghomeandkeepingtheiropinionstothemselves,orattendinganunauthorizedprotestandriskingpoliceviolence,arrest,andimprisonment.Ratherthanprotectingpublics...
The Hong Kong police on October 18, 2019 rejected the Civil Human Rights Front’s application to march against the government’s mask ban on Sunday, October 20. Maya Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch, said:
“The Hong Kong police are increasingly rejecting protest applications, even from groups with a track record of organizing peaceful protests. People are left with the choice of either staying home and keeping their opinions to themselves, or attending an unauthorized protest and risking police violence, arrest, and imprisonment. Rather than protecting public safety, the police’s intention seems to be to dissuade people from publicly expressing their views.”