Volunteers help clean up Kowloon Mosque in Tsim Sha Tsui on Sunday after a police water cannon sprayed the building with blue-dyed water. Photo: Handout
Muslim Council of Hong Kong appeals for calm after police water cannons spray blue dye at front of Kowloon Mosque
- Faith leaders plead with Hongkongers to ‘seek calmness over revenge’, saying the city’s biggest mosque was not police’s intended target
- Earlier, fears of reprisals against ethnic minority groups after a protest activist was attacked were not realised
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Hong Kong protests
Volunteers help clean up Kowloon Mosque in Tsim Sha Tsui on Sunday after a police water cannon sprayed the building with blue-dyed water. Photo: Handout
Masked anti-government protesters set stores on fire. Photo: May Tse
Rampaging mobs stage an arson spree in Hong Kong setting mainland Chinese-linked shops and metro stations ablaze and hurling petrol bombs at police
- Illegal march began peacefully in Tsim Sha Tsui but the calm did not last as marauding protesters blocked roads, throwing bricks and petrol bombs
- Mainland Chinese shops, including Xiaomi store, set alight while police water cannon sprays blue dye on the front of Kowloon Mosque
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Hong Kong protests
Masked anti-government protesters set stores on fire. Photo: May Tse