Dressed in black, thousands of Hong Kong lawyers marched in silence to slam ‘political prosecution’ of arrested extradition bill protesters | South China Morning Post

About 3,000 members of Hong Kong’s legal profession staged a silent march on August 7, 2019, calling on the government to safeguard the city’s rule of law after 44 extradition bill protesters were charged with rioting shortly after being arrested. With a total of 589 arrested protesters, the lawyers fear that the pr…

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