More than 100,000 people are holding another day of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, amid increasingly severe warnings from the Beijing authorities.
Activists and police have clashed over the past 10 weeks, but this weekend’s rallies have so far been peaceful.
The protests were sparked by an extradition bill, which has since been suspended by the Hong Kong government.
China, which has built up security forces in nearby Shenzhen, has likened the protests to terrorist activity.
The protest organisers, the Civil Rights Human Front, were denied authorisation for a march through the city, but police have allowed Sunday’s demonstration in Victoria Park.
The South China Morning Post newspaper tweeted a time lapse video of the park filling up.
#LIVE: The rally has taken over all playgrounds in Victoria Park. Police have apparently said the crowd will also need fill up the lawns before the surrounding streets are opened up https://t.co/TV3k1aFUp4 #HongKongProtests pic.twitter.com/Y7Ac5eZxJ6
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) August 18, 2019
One of the marchers, named as Mr Wong, told the BBC’s Lam Cho Wai at the scene: “We have been fighting for more than two months, but our government has no response at all. We could just come out again and again.”
Large crowds also marched in the nearby areas of Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Wan Chai in defiance of the police ban.