Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/30
By: Stacy Hsu

Taipei, June 30 (CNA) Dozens of Hong Kong and Taiwanese people staged a silent flash mob at Taipei Main Station Sunday in support of the ongoing anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong, with another demonstration to be held Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the territory's return to Chinese rule.

Clad in black shirts, participants in the flash mob held up placards saying "no China extradition," or the June 28 copy of Chinese-language newspaper Apple Daily, which ran a front-page featuring an open letter written by "a group of Hong Kongers in pursuit of freedom" who called for the extradition bill's withdrawal and thanked Taiwan for its support.

"Although despair is looming over Hong Kong, a large group of people still refuse to give up and are doing their absolute best to keep the (movement's) momentum alive," said a Hong Kong woman working in Taiwan, who initiated the event online and asked to be identified only by her surname Wong (黃).

Wong said she decided to bring together a group of like-minded people for the silent flash mob after seeing over 100 people take part in a similar event in the lobby of New York's Grand Central Terminal on June 28.    [FULL  STORY]