Clashes erupt in Hong Kong again days after demonstrators stormed the legislative council building to protest against an extradition bill
Rot police officers try to disperse anti-extradition bill protesters during a demonstration in Mong Kok area in Hong Kong, China, July 7, 2019.
Sunday's clashes came hours after the first demonstration since young, masked protesters stormed parliament on Monday, plunging the city into an unprecedented crisis.But that has done little to quell public anger, which has evolved into a wider movement calling for democratic reforms and a halt to sliding freedoms in the semi-autonomous city.
AFP reporters saw multiple demonstrators detained by police after the fracas, their wrists bound with plastic handcuffs. Sunday's clashes marred what had been an otherwise peaceful day of mass rallies aimed at reaching out to mainland Chinese visitors."We want to show tourists, including mainland China tourists what is happening in Hong Kong and we hope they can take this concept back to China," Eddison Ng, an 18-year-old demonstrator, told AFP.
Many protest banners were written with the Simplified Chinese characters used on the mainland, not the Traditional Chinese system used in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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