Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to protest new extradition laws

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Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to protest new extradition laws
JESSIE PANG, Greg Torode

HONG KONG, April 28 (Reuters) - Tens of 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.

Opponents of the proposal fear further erosion of rights and legal protections in the free-wheeling financial hub - freedoms which were guaranteed under the city’s handover from British colonial rule to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.

Ranks of marchers snaked peacefully for more than three hours through the shopping and business districts of Causeway Bay and Wanchai, with thousands staying on into the evening outside the Legislative Council and government headquarters.

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Too bad they ever rejoiined China. That was a big deal? What about 20 years ago.