An organiser of next week’s commemorative events to mark a year since Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests says there are no plans for another Occupy… but no promises.
Chan Shu-fai, spokesman for the Civil Rights Front, one of the groups helping to plan a series of events next week, says participants will be asked to stage a silent protest outside the government headquarters in Admiralty next Monday.
The 15 minutes of silence will start at 5:58pm, the exact time that Hong Kong police fired the first canister of tear gas at Occupy Central protestors on Sept. 28 last year.
“Everyone is welcome to join if they pass by,” Chan said yesterday, according to the SCMP. “There will be no slogan shouting and no marching. We will stand quietly for about 15 minutes.”
While Chan said they have no plans to repeat the sit-ins seen for 79 days last year, he cautioned, “It is a mass event. We cannot control 100 percent what the participants would do.”
“But we want to tell the government that Hong Kong people have not given up. We have not forgotten our original aim,” he added.
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