With an increasing number of Hongkongers moving to the UK after the country launched a visa scheme offering British National (Overseas) passport holders and their families a path to citizenship, crowds were spotted in cities including London, and Liverpool on Saturday and Sunday in protest.People were seen waving flags, including the Tibetan flag, the unofficial flag of the Xinjiang region, and some others containing the Hong Kong protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times.”The slogan, coined by activist Edward Leung in 2016, was popularised during the 2019 extradition bill protests.However, the phrase was outlawed following the implementation of the national security law in Hong Kong, with a court ruling that it was capable of inciting others to commit secession in the city’s first national security trial.Participants marched while waving protest flags, and Tong was filmed holding a Winnie the Pooh stuffed toy with a photo of China’s leader Xi Jinping’s face taped onto it, a livestream of the protest posted on Tong’s Facebook page showed.Protests were also planned in cities including Brisbane in Australia; Paris in France; Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham in the UK; New York and San Francisco in the US; and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada."