A massive peaceful march to the central business district — on streets spray-painted Online Cigarettes Store USA with the word "resist" and hemmed in by high-rises that echoed with protesters' chants — came as Hong Kong's High Court rejected a second effort to invalidate the mask ban.
Lawmaker Dennis Kwok said the court refused to grant an injunction but agreed to hear later this month an application Newport Cigarettes Shop by 24 legislators against Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam's use of sweeping emergency powers to impose the ban without legislative approval.
Lam's government says that the mask ban will make the identification of rioters easier for police and that other measures are possible if violence continues.
The city's MTR network of subways and trains that was entirely closed Saturday partially reopened Sunday, with greatly reduced Newport box 100s cigarettes service that protesters said made traveling to rallies harder but didn't make them want to stay home.
"Carrie Lam is not the god of Hong Kong. She can't do anything she likes," said retiree Patricia Anyeung, marching masked with her sister, Rebecca.