A strike was scheduled for Monday afternoon for student protesters to skip classes and congregate at a public square in central Hong Kong.
HONG KONG — On the first day of school Monday, secondary students in Hong Kong supplemented their formal white uniforms with gas masks, goggles and hard hats as they planned to strike in a show of continued commitment to a fiery anti-government protest movement.
The youth-dominated demonstrations will be tested as classes resume and many protesters are expected to go back to school following the summer break. Some demonstrators disrupted the morning commute by blocking train doors, attempting to evade riot police who were hot on their heels by moving quickly between multiple public transit stations.
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