Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed government faced new pressure to withdraw legislation easing extraditions to China after as many…
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Huge protest crowds thronged Hong Kong on Sunday as anger swells over plans to allow extradition to China, a proposal that has sparked the biggest public backlash against the city's pro-Beijing leadership in years.
Hong Kong's leaders, who are not popularly elected, say the law is needed to plug loopholes and stop the city being a bolthole for mainland fugitives.
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More than a million people took part in the Sunday march, the largest protest since Hong Kong's 1997 handover to China.
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Yesterday · · At least half a million people in Hong Kong are expected to brave sweltering heat on Sunday to press the government to scrap a proposed extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to China to face trial, organizers of the march said.
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