HONG KONG - A heavy downpour fell on tens of thousands of people who have turned up at Victoria Park on Sunday afternoon for a rally, in the city's 11th consecutive weekend of demonstrations against a controversial extradition Bill.
For the first time, police banned the Civil Human Rights Front from holding a march and only allowed it to organise a static rally in the park that can accommodate some 100,000 people.By 2pm, the park was packed with people, mostly clad in black and some with young children in tow. The rally participants chanted,"Hong Kong yahn, gah yau” in Cantonese, or"Hong Kong people, keep it up", as well as"Free Hong Kong, democracy now" in English.
In an open letter to Hongkongers, the Civil Human Rights Front said that Sunday’s assembly “continues the will of the two million people who marched on June 16th against brutality”. The Front is the organiser of massive rallies seen in the past three months: the June 9 march that drew a crowd of a million people and the June 16 march that clocked two million participants - the largest since the city was handed back to the Chinese from the British in 1997.
While most of the protesters who took part in the march had stopped at the approved end point at Whampoa MTR station, others deviated into other areas.
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