Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in protest at the government’s extradition bill that critics fear would allow China to seize suspects in the territory and face trial on the mainland.
Police said 240,000 people took part but organisers claimed that at least 1m marched, which would make it the largest protest in the semi-autonomous region since the UK handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997.
The march was held just days after up to 180,000 attended a candlelit vigil to commemorate the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Organisers used that vigil to drum up support for Sunday’s march.