Hong Kong Office Workers Find A New Path To Protest

Groups of office workers on Friday morning staged a new form of protest across different districts of Hong Kong – by walking to work.

Many of them wore face masks to defy a newly introduced ban and chanted slogan as they marched peacefully.

This came after online messages called for a "walk to work" protest in districts like Central, Sheung Wan, Kowloon Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui.

The protesters shouted slogans such as "five demands, not one less" and "Hong Kong people resist", as streams of people walked along the pavements.

A woman who turned up at a rally on Nathan Road with a costume mask said she thinks it's important to include protests in daily life, and that going to work and staging a protest can go together.

She added that she hopes the Friday morning's protests were just the start of a new way of demonstrating.

In Central, another woman told RTHK that she is just doing her best to support what the protesters have been calling for, after feeling that their actions and demands have fallen on deaf ears.

She said that she doesn't mind waking up slightly earlier and walking a longer route to work, to continue pressing the demands.

A man who joined the march in Causeway Bay said he wore a mask to show the authorities that he is not afraid of the anti-mask law imposed earlier this month.

He said he has worn a mask at many events because he feels the gesture has become a message to the government.