Protests continue for the total withdrawal of the project, since local government only suspended its processing

HONG KONG - Tens of thousands of people returned to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in protests calling for a permanent ban on the controversial extradition law that would allow the government to extradite people to any country with which the matter has not been previously agreed, including China and Taiwan .
The project was suspended indefinitely by Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Saturday after violent clashes between protesters and police officers during the week, but the decision was deemed insufficient by the organizers of the marches, who want to keep up the pressure on her .



"Remove the law from evil!" Shouted black-clad protesters marching out of a park on Hong Kong Island and headed toward the Legislative Council building - the Parliament of the former British colony returned to China in 1997, but which maintains its own political, legal and administrative systems, in an arrangement known as "one country, two systems" - in the heart of the city. The course is the same as the demonstration that brought together a million people a week ago.
According to the organizers of the protests, the extradition law would put the population of Hong Kong at the mercy of the Communist Party's nebulous mainland Judiciary.

- Carrie Lam's reaction was not sincere, which is why I am expressing it today - 39-year-old Terence Shek, who went to the protest accompanied by her children, told AFP.
As Lam did not give up at once, protesters demanded the abandonment of the bill, the resignation of the head of government and apologies for the violence that left almost 80 peop"This suspension means the project can be resumed at any time," said militant Lee Cheuk-yan.

On Saturday, a man died from falling from the roof of a shopping center, where he stood for several hours with a sign saying "Quit completely the Chinese extradition law. We're not bullies. Free the students and the wounded. "

This Sunday, people formed huge queues to leave flowers and origami at the site of the tragedy, as well as messages of homage to the dead.le, including 22 police, wounded in repression of the protests on Wednesday.
"This suspension means the project can be resumed at any time," said militant Lee Cheuk-yan.

On Saturday, a man died from falling from the roof of a shopping center, where he stood for several hours with a sign saying "Quit completely the Chinese extradition law. We're not bullies. Free the students and the wounded. "


This Sunday, people formed huge queues to leave flowers and origami at the site of the tragedy, as well as messages of homage to the dead.