Protests continue in Hong Kong against government plans to push ahead with changes to the territory's law that would allow suspected criminals to be extradited to mainland China
Demonstrators march during a protest to demand authorities scrap a proposed extradition bill with China, in Hong Kong, China on April 28, 2019.
Early estimates suggested several thousand people had joined the march along Hong Kong Island from Causeway Bay to the council in the Admiralty business district. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong who handed the city back to Chinese rule in 1997, on Saturday described the move "as an assault on Hong Kong's values, stability and security", government-funded broadcaster RTHK reported.
Government officials have said no-one at risk of the death penalty or torture or facing a political charge could be sent from Hong Kong. Under pressure from local business groups, they earlier exempted nine commercial crimes from the new provisions.
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