LSD Claims Credit For Lion Rock Protest Banner

The League of Social Democrats say they were responsible for hanging a huge yellow banner in English and Chinese from Lion Rock denouncing the government's controversial extradition bill.

The banner, which was put up on Thursday night, reads ‘No Extradition to China'.

The landmark has been a popular site for banners since the 2014 Occupy movement, and has appeared just days before a protest that the organizer says could draw 300,000 people on to the streets.

Police have warned people planning to join Sunday's mass protest rally not to do anything illegal, saying they have noticed some calls online for radical action in connection with the demonstration against controversial extradition law changes.

Meanwhile, hundreds of lawyers on Thursday held a rare protest march against the contentious bill, marching in silence from the Court of Final Appeal in Central to the government's headquarters at Tamar.

This kind of protest by lawyers in Hong Kong is a rare event and has happened only five times since the city came under Beijing’s rule in 1997.

Last updated: 2019-06-07 HKT 10:37