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Hong Kong anti-mask law ‘unconstitutional’: High court
HONG KONG, Nov 18, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A government ban on demonstrators
wearing face masks aimed at helping to quell months of pro-democracy unrest
in Hong Kong is unconstitutional, the territory’s high court ruled Monday.
“The restrictions it imposes on fundamental rights… go further than is
reasonably necessary… and therefore fail to meet the proportionality test,”
the court said, according to a press summary.
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