Hong Kong protesters against a controversial extradition bill for the first time targeted a busy shopping district popular with mainland Chinese tourists in an attempt to raise awareness of the issue across the border.
An estimated 230,000 people, according to protest organisers, marched through Hong Kong’s crowded Tsim Sha Tsui area, across the harbour from the skyscrapers of the city’s financial district, converging on the Kowloon West high-speed railway station that connects the territory to the mainland to the north, before most of them dispersed.
By late Sunday evening, a small number were still on the streets, locked in a standoff with riot police in nearby Mongkok, one of the centres of Hong Kong’s so-called Umbrella Movement protests of 2014.