Activists Target Liaison Office Over Security Bill

Around a dozen activists from the League of Social Democrats marched to Beijing's Liaison Office on Thursday to protest the national security legislation.

The group chanted slogans, such as "the national security law threatens the people", and put up posters outside the office with 20,000 signatures opposing the law.

The posters also listed people on the mainland who have been prosecuted for allegedly harming national security.

Former lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung said that more than 100 pro-Beijing figures have attended closed door consultations at the office recently, but stressed that they did not represent the people.

He also questioned the officials' claim that the public supported the planned law, suggesting that they must be on another planet.

"I wonder whether they are travelling to Mars and coming back to the planet [Earth], because I can hardly see any support - public support - for the national security law," Leung said.

Scores of police stood by, guarding footbridges and nearby roads and the Liaison Office was also protected by water barricades.