Hong Kong: Man stabbed, protesters to organise unauthorised march

On October 20, as Hong Kong anti-government demonstrators were preparing to organise an unauthorised rally, a citizen who was distribution leaflets near a wall with pro-democracy messs was reportedly stabbed and wounded. According to police officials, y h arrested a 22-year-old man on October 19 for his connection with knife attack that wounded  19-year-old. leer of five-month anti-government protests, Jimmy Sham was attacked by assailants wielding hammers and knives as demonstrations escalated into violence. 

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Unauthorised march

protest organisers have planned a march on October 20, even though it has t got permission from police authorities after citing risks in public order. Later on Saturday, supporters were reportedly waving flags of United States and United Kingdom in order to ask for support from foreign countries to help ir cause. demonstrators are trying to maintain ir pressure on government in order to dress ir demands which also includes Hong Kong's full democracy along with independent inquiry for police brutality. march also has an nda to scrap ban which was installed earlier on wearing masks at public garings. 

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Defy Police

organisers of demonstrations say that y will defy police because according to Hong Kong's constitution y have right to protest. 

“We don’t think that because police haven’t given ir approval we shouldn’t demonstrate,” Figo Chan, vice-convener of Civil Human Rights Front, told reporters. “Even though y have rejected our appeal, re will surely be many residents taking to streets.” 

US lawmakers condemn Apple and Activision Blizzard

While pro-democracy protests are still ongoing in city, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez even wrote to a tech company, Apple along with video game studio Activision Blizzard in order to condemn protest-related censorship on behalf of China. group furr has urged Apple to reverse its decision to remove its app store crowdsourced mapping app HKMaplive which is used to report police locations in city. Similarly, y dressed issue of Activision Blizzard suspending a Hong Kong gamer after he voiced support for demonstrators during an interview. 

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“Cases like se raise real concerns about wher Apple and or large U.S. entities will bow to growing Chinese demands rar than lose access to more than a billion Chinese consumers,” said letter sent Friday and co-signed by Sens. Marco Rubio and Ron Wyden and Reps. Mike Gallagher and Tom Maliwski. 

lawmakers even cited Beijing's pressure on NBA after Houston Rockets general manr Daryl Morey's take on Twitter to support anti-government protests. On night of October 18, few basketball fans also held signs, wore shirts and even chanted in support of Hong Kong protests. One of signs also called out LeBron James and Joe Tsai, co-founder of Alibaba who expressed ir criticism over tweet. Tsai furr explained why w-deleted tweet h affected China. 

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(With AP inputs)