Permission given for march opposing rubbish plant

Police permitted a small protest march under tight restrictions, in one of the first demonstrations to be approved since the enactment of a sweeping national security law in 2020.

Several dozen demonstrators were required to wear numbered lanyards and were barred from wearing masks, as police monitored their march against a proposed land reclamation and rubbish processing project in the eastern district of Tseung Kwan O.

Responding to the protest, the city’s Development Bureau said the project was intended to “support the daily needs of the community”. It said it would “respect the right to freedom of expression” and would study the possibility of reducing the scale of the land reclamation.