Court adjourns injunction hearing on govt seeks to ban protest song

The High Court on Monday adjourned an injunction hearing on the government's request to ban the people from playing a protest song "Glory to Hong Kong" to July 21.

The postponement came after Judge Wilson Chan Ka-shun said the injunction order applied by the Department of Justice would be legally binding on every public member once it is issued, and the public should be allowed the right to prepare for the defence against the injunction in the meantime.

The injunction seeks to restrain anyone from broadcasting, performing, printing, publishing, selling, offering for sale, distributing, disseminating, displaying, or reproducing in any way - including on the Internet. 

A government statement published last week noted that "Glory to Hong Kong" had been widely circulated since 2019, with the lyrics of the song containing slogans that the Court has ruled as constituting secession. 

"Recently, the Song has also been mistakenly presented as the 'national anthem of Hong Kong' instead of the correct one, 'March of the Volunteers' repeatedly," it wrote.