Reuters, HONG KONGHong Kong anti-government protesters yesterday marched through several shopping malls chanting pro-democracy slogans, a day after violent clashes with police left a shroud of tear gas over a prime tourist district decorated for Christmas. The protests, which escalated in June, have been largely peaceful for much of this month after pro-democracy candidates overwhelmingly won district council elections a month earlier. Riot police patrolled several past protest hotspots, while tourists and shoppers, many wearing Santa hats or reindeer antlers, strolled past. Television footage showed police pepper-spraying a man, who they then arrested, outside a shopping center in the densely populated Mong Kok District. Hundreds of protesters, dressed in black and wearing masks, descended on shopping malls around the territory — mixing with shoppers and shouting popular slogans such as: “Liberate Hong Kong” and “Revolution of our Times” — but most shops remained open.

Source: Taipei Times December 25, 2019 15:56 UTC