Thousands of demonstrators, dressed in black, swarmed the area surrounding Hong Kong's central government complex to protest legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China for trial.
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As demonstrators equipped with police barriers, street signs and trash barrels blocked off Harcourt Road, a major street in the government district, the government said late Wednesday morning that the session would be"changed to a later time to be determined" by the head of the Legislative Council, which is controlled by a pro-Beijing majority.Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters
Vidler told NBC News that"people are terrified, in my view rightly so," that the legislation would remove the"fire wall" between Hong Kong and China. Roy Kwong, center, a pro-democracy lawmaker, chants slogans as protesters demonstrate outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Wednesday.The new protests come three days after as many as 1 million people took to the streets in what was described as thesince China assumed control from Britain in 1997.
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