民陣號召市民在G20峰會本周五至六（28日至29日）舉行前，於今晚（26日）8至9時於中環愛丁堡廣場舉行「撤回惡法 還我自由」集會。
民陣昨晚（26日）8時起在中環愛丁堡廣場舉行集會，期望在G20峰會前向世界表達港人訴求。晚上近8時，愛丁堡廣場人群坐滿大會堂對出空地至少近八成面積。
8時15分集會開始，愛丁堡廣場已坐滿集會者，廣場旁大會堂附近、龍和道等人潮流出馬路，已延至香港國際金融中心商場（IFC）一帶。在場有警察指揮交通，警察不斷擴展圍封行車線。黑衣人逼爆中環。
大會先以英語讀出宣言，再由義工以G20國家的不同語言讀出，包括日語、印尼語、西班牙語、法語、德語、韓語和意大利語；大會亦邀請台灣代表上台。大會最後由民陣召集人以廣東話讀出宣言。
大會没有點算人數，警方指高峰期有1萬人。
10,000 gathered at Edinburgh Place on Wednesday evening calling on G20 countries to raise concerns about Hong Kong at the leaders’ summit on Friday, hours after staging a mass march to foreign consulates to lobby country representatives directly.
At 8 pm the crowds already filled 80% of Edinburgh Place area.The rally began at 8:15 when the square was filled to capacity. The crowd overflowed into the neighbouring City Hall and Lung Wo Road area, extending to the International Finance Centre (IFC). Police Was directing traffic at the scene, and closed traffic lanes for the massive crowd dressed in black, packing the area in Central.
The rally first read out the declaration in English and then in different languages of the G20 countries, including Japanese, Indonesian, Spanish, French, German, Korean and Italian. A Taiwan representatives was invited to address the crowd. At the end, the convenor of Civil Rights Front read the declaration in Cantonese.
No rally people count was provided by the organizers. Police estimated 10,000 attended during the peak period.
