Hong Kong, Dec 31 (AFP/APP): Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong held hands and formed human chains across the city on Tuesday, as they carried their months-long movement and its demands into 2020 with midnight countdown rallies and a massive march planned for New Year’s Day. The financial hub has been battered by more than six months of protests that included huge peaceful marches attended by millions, as well as violent confrontations in which police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets, and protesters responded with flurries of petrol bombs. In a video message posted on Facebook city leader Carrie Lam said she would “humbly listen to find a way out” for the city, but didn’t address protester demands for greater democratic freedoms and police accountability. Thousands of people joined hands to form human chains that stretched for kilometres (miles) along busy shopping streets and in local neighbourhoods. They chanted slogans, sang “Glory to Hong Kong” — a symbolic protest anthem — and held up posters calling for people to fight for democracy in 2020. “Thanks to 2019, which tore off the ugly masks of the police and the government and let the people see the truth,” said protester Kris, a … Continue reading Hong Kong protesters carry political demands into 2020