Coronavirus: Hong Kong police dish out 36 fixed penalty tickets as protesters break social-distancing rules
- Police issue HK$2,000 fixed penalty tickets as people gather on a footbridge and nearby street in Yuen Long
- Pepper spray was also used on two men, aged 21 and 22, who were arrested for obstructing police
Police handed out dozens of HK$2,000 (US$256) fixed penalty tickets for violations of coronavirus social-distancing rules to a group of protesters in Hong Kong, the force revealed on Wednesday.
Pepper spray was also used on two men, aged 21 and 22, who were arrested for obstructing police as tensions flared in Yuen Long in the northwestern New Territories on Tuesday night.
A small crowd of about 50 people had gathered to mark nine months since a violent mob attack on anti-government protesters and railway passengers in Yuen Long MTR station.
The group staged a sit-in inside Yoho Mall next to the station at 7pm. Some later defied the ban on public gatherings of more than four people, assembling on nearby Fung Cheung Road and Castle Peak Road.
There was a heavy police presence in the area, with officers checking the identity documents of people on the road.
