HK Extradition Bill Suspended After Protests Last for a Week with Over 1 Million Protestors

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George Yang
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If you’ve been coming to our app every day, you’ll understand the headline immediately because we’ve once written about the bill and the protest that’s simplified for the bubble-tea drinking generation.

If not, here’s a concise idea of what’s happened (though I still suggest that you come to our app daily so that we earn more money to appear smart in front of your friends):

  • Hong Kong does not have an extradition law to all countries, in which if someone commits a crime overseas and come back to Hong Kong, the country cannot request for the criminal to go back to that country for trial
  • Recently, a person from Hong Kong killed a person in Taiwan and went back to Hong Kong; Taiwan wanted the person back by couldn’t do so
  • Hong Kong then proposed a bill (bill is like a proposal before it’s voted into law) in February 2019 that allows any country to extradite criminals from Hong Kong
  • People in Hong Kong aren’t happy as they’re afraid that China would abuse the system and anyhowly extradite Hongkies to China for trial
  • Since March, there has been protests but a massive one started in 9 June 2019, whereby over 1 million people went to the streets to protest
  • A bill needs to be debated by lawmakers and voted before it can be law: the second debate is supposed to be on 12 June 2019 but was postponed

Yah, that’s about it.

The protestors set three goals for their protest:

  • Withdrawal of the bill
  • Prevent extradition to mainland China
  • Resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam

In a surprise move, Chief Executive Carrie Lam (Chief Executive in Hong Kong is like Prime Minister in Singapore) finally made a move; they’re suspending the bill.

Press Conference

Today (15 June 2019), Ms Lam told the public that the work on the bill would be stopped.

As mentioned earlier, a bill’s like a proposal: and if no one looks at the proposal, it won’t be “used”, and in this case, won’t be laws.

They will consult with various parties on the next step.

She said, “The Government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise, restart our communication with all sectors of society, do more … work and listen to different views of society.”

But would the bill be revisited?

She added, “We have no intention to set a deadline for this work and promise to report to and consult members of the legislative council panel on security before we decide on the next step forward.”

Like what my nasty and fat boss would say, a task without a deadline will never be done. I think I’m going to agree with him for the first time in my life.

Now, if you’d have realised, the protestors have “achieved” two of their three goals: withdrawal of the bill (it’s suspended until don’t know when) and prevention on extradition to mainland China (no bill = no laws = no extradition).

However, the third goal of “Resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam” isn’t achieved.

You can watch the press conference here (Canto dubbed over with English):

And of course, there’s an English version because Andy Lau and Tony Leung also know English one:

In the meantime, another protest march has been planned for tomorrow, though it might be a victory march instead #justsaying

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