Demonstrators offer sparkling visions of unity as an estimated 210,000 people form 60km of human chains to encircle city in ‘Hong Kong Way’
- Starting from 7pm, human chains stretched across city to push for five core demands the government has rejected
- Hongkongers also trek up Lion Rock where they chanted ‘Hongkongers, add oil!’ and ‘Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times!”
Anti-government protesters formed long human chains across Hong Kong on Friday night, standing on pavements in snaking lines that stretched along three railway lines in an unprecedented event they dubbed the “Hong Kong Way”.
They began at 7pm, flocking outside MTR stations and lines and at other gathering points, from where they spread out over a couple of hours to stand side by side in human chains extending from Kennedy Town to Causeway Bay, from Kowloon Tong to Yau Ma Tei, along the Tsim Sha Tsui harbourfront, and from Tsuen Wan to Lai King, as well as further east along the Kwun Tong line.
“Hongkongers, add oil!” they chanted, “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times!”
Organisers said the turnout exceeded expectations as more than 210,000 people joined hands across districts. This was a revised figure announced the next morning from the original of 135,000.
