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Riot police were deployed in Hong Kong on Sunday as thousands of protesters marched to demand that China's central government stay out of a political dispute after Beijing indicated that it would intervene to deter pro-independence advocates.

In the evening, dozens of helmeted police officers were seen running to clear the protesters from the streets of Saiwan area.

Earlier, police also used pepper spray and batons on demonstrators amid some scuffling.

The dispute centres on a provocative display of anti-China sentiment by two newly elected pro-independence Hong Kong lawmakers at their swearing-in ceremony last month.

China's top legislative panel said that Beijing must intervene in the dispute to deter advocates of independence for the city, calling their actions a threat to national security.

The Standing Committee of China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, said in a statement that Beijing could not afford to do nothing in the face of challenges in Hong Kong to China's authority, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Saturday.

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