Hong Kong Protesters Take Their Message to Chinese Tourists

HONG KONG — Antigovernment demonstrators held another march in Hong Kong on Sunday, the first major action since a small group of protesters broke into the city’s legislature last Monday in a dramatic escalation of recent tensions.

It is the latest in a series of protests that have roiled Hong Kong since the city’s leaders tried to push through a contentious bill that would allow extradition to mainland China. The protests, which organizers say have drawn up to two million people, have been mostly peaceful, apart from a few violent confrontations between police officers and demonstrators.

Organizers said about 230,000 turned out for Sunday’s protests. The police said the turnout was 56,000 at its peak.

Tensions culminated last week when an offshoot group of young protesters smashed their way into a legislative building and ransacked the premises, as hundreds of thousands of people marched peacefully in a concurrent protest elsewhere in the city.

Though the extradition bill has been suspended, the protesters’ demands have broadened to include a call for more democratic reforms such as universal suffrage, in addition to a full withdrawal of the bill, an independent inquiry into police violence toward protesters and amnesty for the protesters.