Hong Kong's leader apologized for mishandling an extradition bill as protest organizers said almost two million marchers returned to the streets
HONG KONG-Up to nearly two million protesters poured into this city’s streets for a second Sunday, as a week of demonstrations against a China-backed bill to expand the government’s extradition powers galvanized people here into a broader political awakening.
The massive turnout, which organizers estimated at nearly two million, was the third mass demonstration in eight days. It was a rejection of a partial walkback by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who a day earlier indefinitely suspended work on the bill, which would...
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