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Protesters have been circulating downloadable face masks for Thursday evening.
One shows Chief Executive Carrie Lam as Batman's nemesis The Joker, another has Secretary for Justice Theresa Cheng looking like Guy Fawkes.
There is also a mask that blends Chinese president Xi Jinping's face with Winnie the Pooh -- AA Milne's "bear Newport Cigarettes Shop of little brain" who is frequently used to lampoon the authoritarian leader and is routinely censored on the mainland as a result.
"This is not a celebration or a party," organisers of the unsanctioned protest wrote on a messaging group. "We arApple Daily, the city's most openly pro-democracy newspaper, also printed a front page on Thursday with a cutout mask of a policeman and a headline suggesting officers were now "more scary than ghosts".
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Officers would demand people remove their masks or facepaint if they were suspected protesters, the source added.
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