Organizers said 1 million Hong Kong residents marched in Sunday's protests against plans to allow extradition of criminals to China.
Massive public protests in Hong Kong against a proposed change to the semi-autonomous province's policy on extraditing criminals to China has been dismissed by Beijing state media as foreign-driven plots involving"hoodwinked" locals.
Organizers of Sunday's action said more than 1 million marchers—which would mean one in every seven Hong Kong residents—took to the streets, though the BBC quoted local police as putting the number at 240,000. Another march is planned for Wednesday, though Hong Kong's pro-Beijing Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said she will not scrap the plan.
argued that this situation"has undermined Hong Kong's reputation as a rule-of-law society that is intolerant of crime; it has compromised cooperative law enforcement efforts with other places; and it has weakened the confidence of law enforcers elsewhere in Hong Kong's ability to hold criminals to account and combat crime."
The author claimed that Sunday's marchers"have failed to realize that the opposition camp is using them merely as pawns" to achieve its own political aims, which would damage the"credibility and reputation" of the territory.
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