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HONG KONG — Hong Kong activists will combine anti-government protests with lantern celebrations marking the Mid-Autumn Festival this weekend after a brief lull in sometimes violent demonstrations which have rocked the Chinese-ruled city since June.

The protests include another in a series of “stress tests” of the airport, which in recent weeks have seen approach roads blocked, street fires started and the trashing of a nearby MTR subway station.

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Protesters also jammed the airport arrivals hall last month, leading to canceled or delayed flights and clashes with police.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest celebration throughout the Chinese-speaking world. In East and Southeast Asia it is celebrated with mooncakes, gazing at the full moon and colorful lantern displays. It falls on Friday this year.

Protesters plan a series of lantern-carrying human chains and sit-ins at MTR shopping malls and on the city’s scenic Victoria Peak, popular with mainland tour groups, and on Lion Rock, separating the New Territories from the Kowloon peninsula.