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Hong Kong protests: students from at least two elite schools wave US and revolutionary flags on campus while others wear black for Dress Casual Day

  • About 100 students from Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School gather on basketball court and staircases, belting out popular protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong
  • At St Paul’s College in Mid-Levels, about 200 students sing same song, accompanied by members of the school band playing trombones, trumpets and euphoniums

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Students at St Paul’s College in Mid-Levels dress in black and wave a “revolutionary” flag. Photo: Robert Ng

Students from at least two Hong Kong elite secondary schools have waved American and “revolutionary” flags on campus in the latest example of continuing anti-government protests in the city.

In a video circulated on social media on Thursday, about 100 students in uniform from Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School in Tai Wai were seen gathered on the school’s basketball court and on staircases, belting out Glory to Hong Kong, the popular protest anthem regularly sung at street demonstrations and in shopping malls, as a student held up and waved the US flag.

Meanwhile, at St Paul’s College in Mid-Levels, 14 students waved flags emblazoned with the rallying cry “Liberate Hong Kong; revolution of our times” during recess.

They were surrounded by about 200 fellow students chanting and singing the same song, while members of the school band played trombones, trumpets and euphoniums.

Elsewhere in the city, students from dozens more schools wore black for an annual Dress Casual Day to raise money for charity.

Many students wore all black for a charity dress casual day. Photo: Nora Tam
Many students wore all black for a charity dress casual day. Photo: Nora Tam
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