Hong Kong protesters in Halloween masks vandalize shops and paralyze city after court refuses to cancel anti-mask ban

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Tens of thousands of protesters with their faces concealed despite a new anti-mask law took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday, after the city’s High Court dismissed a request by opposition lawmakers to abolish the ban.

Activists – who wore Halloween masks, surgical masks, and even facial treatment masks and makeup in defiance of the ban – gathered for new unsanctioned rallies on both sides of Victoria Harbor and in other parts of Hong Kong while the city remained partly on lockdown after violent protests kicked off on Friday.

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