Student leaders involved in the recent demonstrations said they would rather go to jail or die than retreat from the student movement and let the 'evil law' stay.
The seven students arrested last month under the Public Order Ordinance could face up to five years in jail for being involved in an unauthorised gathering.
One of them, 21-year-old Chinese University student union vice-president Fung Ka-keung, said: 'I'm not afraid at all. From day one when I decided to follow the path of civil disobedience, I expected to be arrested. Civil disobedience is a self-sacrifice. We are expected to face the consequences of getting arrested or even killed.'
Dressed in black with quotations from Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi written on his T-shirt, Mr Fung marched again on Monday even though he was on police bail. 'If my future is going to be affected, I can do nothing about it,' he said.
His comrades, all in their 20s, agreed. 'We ought to be responsible for what we did,' said Gloria Chang Wan-ki, the student union president of the University of Hong Kong. She said it was useless to be afraid, because she believed what the students had done was justifiable.
Yuen Hoi-yan, student union vice-president of the University of Hong Kong, said she, too, was not afraid. 'I just find it troublesome to report to the police regularly,' she said.