"We urge the Hong Kong people to assemble peacefully, march peacefully, in order to show the whole world we are still eager for the five demands," campaigner Leung Kwok-hung said on Saturday, vowing the demonstration would go ahead. More than 90% of a 3,200-strong alumni at Hong Kong University on Saturday passed a motion calling for Lam's resignation, saying students had suffered "injuries from police brutality" while in custody. Hong Kong has been relatively calm in the past two weeks after violent protests ignited by the introduction of colonial-era emergency laws. Hong Kong protest leaders urge turnout for march, despite risk of arrest - Reuters https://t.co/gwX6Y8SUtf — عمو حسام 🇵🇸🇪🇭 (@3arabawy) October 19, 2019Bracing for violenceProtesters are concerned that Beijing is eroding freedoms granted when Britain handed the city back to China in 1997. The unrest was sparked by a now withdrawn bill which would have allowed extradition to mainland China for trial in Communist Party-controlled courts.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 19, 2019 09:49 UTC