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The Pulse：New Year's Day march & looking ahead into 2020 with Icarus Wong of Civil Rights Observer,

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For Hongkongers, 2019 was a year of stress and conflict, and the year ended much in the way we have come to expect. An early warning came with the cancelation of the New Year firework display. And then those who ventured out to the streets in search of celebrations, found themselves sharing the thoroughfares and shopping malls with protesters and riot police. So, 2019 ended with protests in many districts. And just minutes into 2020, riot police greeted the New Year with tear gas and rubber bullets on Nathan Road. Later in the day the Civil Human Rights Front was ordered to end its annual New Year’s Day march, just three hours after it started. Although it had received a letter of no objection from the police, the organisers were told to disperse a very large number of demonstrators within 45 minutes.

So what can we expect in the coming twelve months? With me to gaze into RTHK-supplied crystal balls are Icarus Wong, founder of Civil Rights Observer; Nixie Lam, a member of DAB; and Natalie Lai, committee member of the newly formed union, Standby Educators Hong Kong.
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