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		</div><p>Hundreds of protesters swarmed into the Hong Kong legislature’s main building, tearing down portraits and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans in the main chamber as frustration over a lack of response to opposition demands boiled over.</p>
<p>Police carrying riot shields and firing tear gas moved in shortly after midnight to clear surrounding streets and then moved into the already vacated legislative chamber.</p>
<p>A spokesman had earlier broadcast a warning that “appropriate force” would be used in the clearance operation, but there was no immediate word on any arrests or injuries.</p>
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<p>The sharp escalation in tactics came on the anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China, a city holiday, and reflected mounting frustration with Hong Kong’s leader for not responding to protesters’ demands after several weeks of demonstrations.</p>
<p>The protesters had smashed windows and pried open steel security gates to gain entrance to the building.</p>
<p>Police in riot gear retreated as the protesters entered, avoiding a confrontation and giving them the run of the building.</p>
<p>The activists stood on legislators’ desks in the main legislative chamber, painted over the territory’s emblem high on a wall and wrote slogans calling for a democratic election of the city’s leader and denouncing now-suspended extradition legislation that sparked the protests.</p>
<p>Many wore yellow and white helmets, face masks and the black T-shirts that have become their uniform.</p>
<p>The actions prompted organisers of a peaceful march against the extradition bill to change the end point of their protest from the legislature to a nearby park, after police asked them to either call it off or change the route.</p>
<p>Police wanted the march to end earlier in the Wan Chai district, but organisers said that would leave out many people who planned to join the march along the way.</p>
<p>Police estimated 190,000 people joined the peaceful march, the third major one in as many weeks. Organisers estimated the number at 550,000.</p>
<p>Hong Kong has been hit by weeks of protests over a government attempt to change extradition laws to allow suspects to be sent to China to face trial.</p>
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<p>The proposed legislation, on which debate has been suspended indefinitely, increased fears of eroding freedoms in the territory, which Britain returned to China on July 1 1997.</p>
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