Hong Kong: Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists used torches, lanterns and laser pens to light up some of the city’s best-known hillsides in an eye-catching protest alongside an annual festival.
Friday evening marks the start of the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the most important dates in the Chinese calendar, and is traditionally a time for thanksgiving, spending time with family and praying for good fortune.
Throughout the evening, thousands of activists with torches on their heads hiked up hill trails leading to the top of Lion Rock, which overlooks the sprawling skyscrapers of the city’s Kowloon district, one of the most densely populated places on earth. Both groups, whose lights were visible to each other across the harbour, chanted slogans and sang “Glory to Hong Kong”, an anonymously penned protest anthem which has gone viral in recent days.
“Today’s autumn festival is a symbol of family and togetherness, so this is in the spirit of gathering the power of the Hong Kong people,” a 24-year-old protester, who gave his surname Yip, said as he sweated his way to the top of Lion Rock in the unforgiving sticky evening heat.
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