The peaceful marchers chanted demands for Hong Kong's Executive Carrie Lam to step down. Some sported yellow umbrellas - the symbol of the Occupy civil disobedience movement in 2014.THOUSANDS of people marched on Hong Kong's Parliament on Sunday to demand the scrapping of proposed extradition rules that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial - a move which some fear puts the city's core freedoms at risk.
Some younger marchers said they were worried about travelling to China after the move, which comes just as the government encourages young people to deepen ties with the mainland and promotes Hong Kong's links with southern China. The proposed changes have sparked an unusually broad chorus of concern from international business elites to lawyers and rights' groups and even some pro-establishment figures.
Under the changes, the Hong Kong leader would have the right to order the extradition of wanted offenders to China, Macau and Taiwan as well as other countries not covered by Hong Kong's existing extradition treaties. The proposals could be passed into law later in the year, with the city's pro-democratic camp no longer holding enough seats to block the move.
Mr Lam left Hong Kong for Taiwan last week, saying he feared being sent back to the mainland under the new laws and his experience showed he could have no trust in China's legal system.
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