Anti-government protesters have returned to the streets of Hong Kong now that the coronavirus lockdown has been eased.

Footage showed demonstrators chanting "Glory to Hong Kong" in Langham Place despite a heavy police presence in the area.

Despite around 200 police officers being deployed the protest remained peaceful without any incidents on May 1.

Protesters also gathered at Prince Edward station on April 30th to mark a violent police crackdown on demonstrators eight months ago.

Calls for mass anti-government protests in Hong Kong on May 1st, went unheeded, as the online forum LIHKG, used by protesters, cast doubts over the call. Instead, a small group of protesters met in front of Langham Place near the location of a trade union booth, to sing "Glory To Hong Kong", the protest anthem, and chant slogans such as "Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution Now".

Despite riot police deploying around 200 policemen at Langham place around 17.00 to prevent any reunion, this little singalong protest took place peacefully and without incidents.

Today, as every end of month since August 2019, people came to bring flowers to the Exit B1 of Prince Edward MTR station. Hong Kong Protesters allege that people died during the police intervention on 31 August 2019 at that same station, despite lack of any evidence or testimonial on what happened that night. As usual, riot police had established a cordon, and in an innovation observed since February 2020, pro-democrat district council members stand outside the station and receive white flowers (the color of mourning in Asian cultures).

As protesters commemorated 8 months since what they call the "8.31 Attacks", during which riot police intervened violently in the Prince Edward station, a couple of individuals held colonial flags of Hong Kong. Although one of the protesters is a regular fixture on all protests since 2019 with a colonial flag and a US flag, this illustrates the nostalgia of a part of the population for the colonial era, seen as giving them more hope and freedom than under the Chinese yoke.

As Hong Kong protesters attempted to commemorate what they call the "8.31 attacks" at Prince Edward station, a small group of mainly senior individuals attempted to start a march to Mongkok, with cries of "Hak Ging". The embryonic march never arrived to Mongkok, nor did it elicit much support.

As Hong Kong protesters attempted to commemorate what they call the "8.31 attacks" at Prince Edward station, a small group of mainly senior individuals attempted to start a march to Mongkok, with cries of "Hak Ging". The embryonic march never arrived to Mongkok, nor did it elicit much support.