Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition won 23 seats in the Chinese territory’s 60-member parliament, two fewer than in the last election but still enough to veto major legislation, final results showed today.

A Briton was held today after unfurling banners condemning China’s human rights record on a major bridge in Hong Kong.

THE watering down of reviled anti-subversion laws by Hong Kong’s government has done little to allay concerns, pro-democracy groups said yesterday, calling for the legislation to be postponed.