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Protesters in Kowloon Bay and at the International Finance Centre responded to the call for action.
The demonstration proceeded peacefully without any conflict between the police and the demonstrators.
In the evening, in the New Town Plaza in Sha Tin held a "Plan with You" civil district council event.
More than ten district councillors served as guests and hundreds of citizens attended.
During the period, Shatin District Council Chairman Ching Cheung-ying and vice-chairman Wong Hok-lai made speeches, explaining the district council appropriations, including various expenditure sections including "development, housing and business", "finance, standing and other large-scale activities", "district facility management", etc.
It also talked about "police riots", the establishment of Lennon Wall, market management, and regional facilities, as well as the organisation of civil society.
At the end of the event, the citizens shouted anti-government slogans, and then slowly dispersed.
About 100 people gathered at a car park in Tseung Kwan O to pay tribute to Alex Chow Tsz-Lok, a student who had died two months earlier, to the day, of injuries from a fall in that car park while a police clearance operation had been conducted against a protest in the vicinity.
They observed a minute's silence in memory of him.
The mourners lit candles and placed flowers near the car park wall.
Others displayed posters about the protests.
Some masked protesters attempted to block a major intersection in the area.
They pulled old cabinets and a sofa from a rubbish collection point nearby and tried to put them outside the PopCorn mall.
Police sirens were heard, causing the protesters to flee back to the car park.
The protesters later dug up bricks near the car park and scattered them on a nearby road.
They also fled as soon as riot police arrived.
Police were deployed to a "Lennon Wall" in Tsuen Wan overnight, as tensions flared between residents of the area and a group of people who had arrived to tear down protest-related posts and messages.
They were carrying rods, high-power water cleaning guns and wall scrapers.
Some residents who came out to confront them were chased off by the outsiders who were wielding the tools they had brought with them.
Police arrived at around half past midnight to separate the two sides and those who had planned to rip down the Lennon Wall left the area.
Some citizens called for a "Write to You and Warm to Taiwan" rally at 1 pm in Kowloon Bay.
At the peak, about 30 citizens were present to write letters which will be transferred to the Taiwan solidarity protesters.
The scene was generally calm, no slogans were heard.
Most of the participants left on their own after writing a letter.
During the event, riot police were stationed.
About 60 people, in Quarry Bay Station gathered outside to chant slogans.
Others marched to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) headquarters.
The marchers were dissatisfied with Legislative Councillor Lam Cheuk-ting, who earlier disclosed to the media that the superintendent responsible for a fight was being investigated by the ICAC.
According to Article 30 (1) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, it is an offence to disclose the identity of the person being investigated to the public, or any specific person, without lawful authority and reasonable excuse.
Dozens of people protested chanting anti-government slogans and some protesters stomping on pictures of Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping, Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Police commissioner Chris Tang.
Later police officers were seen scraping the pictures off the floor.
Around 20 riot police officers were present but the protest ended without any confrontations.
Some displayed placards calling for an independent probe into alleged police brutality and to disband the force immediately.
When the riot police walked past, some insults were also hurled at them.
Some citizens launched the "Lennon Day" in multiple districts.
The event was convened at 2 pm, and the "Yuen Tso Celebration" was held near the Central Government Complex where the Lennon Wall first appeared in Hong Kong.
Police where deployed in multiple areas.
More than a dozen demonstrators went to make Lennon Walls, in participation with the "Lennon, Warrior Thanksgiving Ceremony" event, outside the Admiralty Government headquarters, followed by a tram to Causeway Bay, and finally glass of a footbridge on Percival Street.
Protesters put stickers and posters on the boards.
At about 5:30 pm, around 20 young people responded to the "Lennon Day" event, and posted the anti-government posters outside the British Consulate General.
Suddenly, two or three police officers stopped vehicles approaching, claiming that someone had been hurt at the scene.
At least one girl was arrested.
People at the scene said that the gray steps where they were located on was part of British territory.
Saying that the police could not enforce the law on the step.
Later, the British Conservative Party member of the Commission on Human Rights Luke de Pulford on Twitter issued a document, expressed concern about the peaceful expression of the demands of young protesters, suspected to be arrested within the scope of the consulate that requires immediate attention.
Later, when the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth responded to Hong Kong Free Press' inquiry, it acknowledged that the British Consulate General in Hong Kong proactively called the police.
Hundreds of people staged a rally in Central calling on the international community to sanction the Hong Kong government, which they accuse of violating the basic human rights of residents.
A number of protesters waved the flags of the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, with some saying the U.S. flag represents freedom and justice.
One of the organisers of the rally, Ventus Lau, said he hopes overseas governments can follow in the footsteps of the U.S. in passing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act to sanction Hong Kong government officials if authorities continue to ignore the five demands of the protesters.
Lau also said "the Hong Kong government is capable of introducing full democracy right away by abolishing the functional constituencies in the Legco elections this year".
If it doesn’t, he says the sanctions will be triggered and officials will face the strongest retribution.
Protesters called a "Lunch with You" rally.
By 1:00 pm, more than a dozen citizens gathered in the atrium of "The Landmark", in Central.
Protesters included young students, holding posters and shouting slogans.
Some of the participants turned on their mobile phone flashlights and sang.
Later, more protesters gradually joined.
Police officers were stationed nearby.
Around 100 people held a rally at the Edinburgh Place, Central, to protest against the University of Hong Kong's (HKU) move to start proceedings against Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai that could see him fired.
The law professor was released on bail pending appeal over his convictions of leading the pro-democracy movement in 2014.
He was jailed in April 2019 for 16 months.
Members of the rally many of them HKU graduates said "the university should not have set up the inquiry as it violates due process as Tai's appeal is before the courts".
Citizens launched a "Lunch with You" rally.
Demonstrators shouted slogans in the Tsun Yip Street Playground in Kwun Tong.
After about 100 protesters gathered, the crowd started to move towards How Ming Street and shouted slogans along the way.
In addition, in Statue Square in Central, some citizens also launched a "Lunch with You/Write with You" campaign.
Dozens of people came and wrote slogans on scrolls.
Some police officers were stationed at the entrance.
Protesters called a "Lunch with You" rallies in Cheung Sha Wan and San Po Kong.
About 30 people gathered in the parking lot of the Hong Kong Industrial Centre.
The crowds along the way shouted slogans.
Some riot police officers were deployed along the way and went outside the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre, a prison where arrested protesters are held.
About 70 demonstrators shouted "Release the righteous".
In San Po Kong, Tai Yau Street, there were also about 50 citizens gathered, including a number of students in school uniforms.
They later walked to Sheung Hei Street to disperse.
Police officers were on alert but the rally was relatively calm.
The Tai Po Secondary School Student Speech Platform, comprising secondary school students from Tai Po, held a rally in the open-air plaza at the Tai Po Waterfront Park.
More than 100 citizens participated.
Organisers also invited many members of the Tai Po District Council.
Next to the rally, a "Write with You" event was also held to allow the attendees to write a New Year greeting for Hong Kong people in exile in Taiwan.
A rally calling for electoral reform and a boycott of the Chinese Communist Party
was held at Chater Gardens in Central district.
The organisers, among them Ventus Lau, had sought to obtain a letter of no objection
for a march, but the police only permitted a static rally.
Solidarity rallies in 22 cities across 12 countries were announced for the same day.
The assembly began at 3 pm.
At about 4 pm, demonstrators surrounded police officers and threw water bottles and debris in Des Voeux Road, in Central.
Some protesters also set up barricades with iron bars, bricks, traffic cones, and umbrellas.
Police said two community liaison officers were attacked with wooden sticks and sustained head injuries.
At about 4.30 pm, the police demanded the termination of the rally for security reasons.
Three police officers and a civilian relations team entered the venue to communicate with the organiser to request the termination of the rally.
The police fired tear gas outside Chater Garden to disperse the rally.
A reporter from Stand News was intercepted twice by police during an interview in Admiralty.
During the first interception, a reporter from Stand News used a mobile phone to record but a police officer continued to use a reporter's ID card.
The officer then put his ID card in fount of the phone to stop him recording.
The reporter was then intercepted by the police for the second time at the same location.
During the live broadcast on the mobile phone, some police officers snatched the reporter's live broadcast equipment.
During the interception, some police officers snatched the reporter's mobile phone and destroyed the reporter's mobile phone screen.
Lau was arrested by the police on the grounds of "incitement to the mood of the masses" and "violation of the condition that the garden shall not be forced to burst (crowded) in the notice of no objection".
The next day, the police changed the charges of "resistance office" and "violation of the conditions of the notice of no objection" and are currently being detained at the Wan Chai Police Station.
Later, the police renamed it "without timely assistance in dissolving the assembly and deliberately neglecting to execute the police order", thus violating section 17A of the Public Security Ordinance, Chapter 245 of the Laws of Hong Kong.