Several hundred protesters who blocked the main road in the center of Hong Kong during the night early this morning have withdrawn and traffic has returned to normal, Agence France-Presse reported on the spot.
The police spent part of the night and morning trying to convince the protesters to leave the busy streets of Hong Kong.
In the end, the demonstrators went to a nearby park without any confrontations with members of the security forces.
Several tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong again on Sunday, a day after the suspension of the procedure for adopting a controversial law on the extradition of citizens to the Chinese authorities. During the day, they rejected the apology of the head of the Hong Kong government, Carrie Lam, the AP agency reported.
The protesters are demanding that Kerry Lam step down, that the law be withdrawn and that the police apologize for the excessive use of force against their own people during the protests.
Opponents of the new law argue that China's legal system would not guarantee defendants the same rights they have in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
When Great Britain handed it over to China in 1997, Hong Kong was guaranteed the right to maintain its own social, legal and political system for the next 50 years, according to the "one country, two systems" formula. However, the ruling Chinese Communists are increasingly deviating from that agreement and insisting on changes to the law, unpopular in Hong Kong.
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