Several thousand demonstrators stayed until the early hours of morning near the legislature in the Admiralty district, while thousands more retreated to the Central business district, overlooked by the towers of some of Asia's biggest firms and hotel chains, including HSBC and AIA.
Banks, including Standard Chartered, Bank of China and DBS, said they had suspended branch services in the area. Lam has said the courts would provide human rights safeguards in vetting case-by-case extraditions to mainland China. "We are not a haven for criminals, but we have become a haven of violent police. Firing at our children? None of the former chief executives dared to do that," said legislator Fernando Cheung.
The adjacent Admiralty metro station remained shut while commuters crowded into other stations, with some diverted into sprawling bus queues.
This is bad. This is NOT right!