Clean-up of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council ‘crime scene’ begins after violent July 1 protests

Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (Legco) complex remained in disarray and was sealed off as a crime scene by police the day after hundreds of anti-extradition bill protesters broke into the building and occupied it for about 12 hours on July 1, 2019. The siege happened separately from a larger annual protest march to mark the former British colony’s 1997 handover to Chinese rule.  Demonstrators who broke into the government complex called for the complete withdrawal of the bill, and the…