CHINA-HONGKONG: TRADE UNIONS AND PROTESTORS PLAN TO RESUME PROTESTS
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The South China Morning Post reported (April 22) that organisers of a major Labour Day protest in Hong Kong have decided to go ahead with their march defying a police warning to cancel it because of the coronavirus epidemic. Leaders of the Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU) insisted the May 1 demonstration could go ahead without breaking the social-distancing laws. They called the ban to stop Covid-19’s spread “absurd”. A senior police source said the pro-democracy CTU and pro-Beijing Federation of Trade Unions were both asked to withdraw their protest applications, warning they ran the risk of holding illegal events if they took to the streets regardless. The police are also seeking legal advice on how to handle applications for a possible June 4 vigil in Victoria Park to mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.
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