HONG KONG: More than a thousand protesters marched to major foreign consulates on Wednesday calling on leaders at the upcoming G20 summit to raise the plight of Hong Kong with China. They demanded ‘support’ from G-20 leaders to fully scrap a controversial extradition bill.
They held placards with a writing “Please Liberate Hong Kong” and they chanted “Help Hong Kong”. Demonstrators were wearing masks, marched to a succession of consulates represented at the Group of 20 major economies summit in Japan’s Osaka this weekend.
Over the past three weeks, millions of Hong Kong people have protested against an extradition bill that would have allowed individuals, including foreigners, to be extradited to mainland China to face trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party.
Hong Kong’s Beijing-appointed leader Carrie Lam, eventually caved in after some of the worst violence seen in decades on the city’s streets, with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets. But Lam stopped short of protester demands to scrap the bill altogether, saying it would be suspended indefinitely. (Agencies)
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