It's important we stand with Hong Kong when there's so much injustice happening in that region. For example, the police have been known to respond to the protesters with tear gas, some of which are expired which is extremely lethal and could kill people. Furthermore, the police have also responded with rubber bullets. One female protester was shot in the head and lost sight in her right eye permanently. We must also stand with the protesters as nearly 60% of them are younger than 30 years old, meaning a majority of the protesters will live through the end of the "One Country, Two System" policy. In fact, hundreds of children have been arrested, some reporting that there's as many as 750 children arrested. On top of that, police brutality has been rampant in the protests, many abusing the arrested protesters.
An extradition is the removal of a convicted fugitive from a requested state to the state where they had committed the crime and where they will face trial.
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. It has a total population of 7.451 million as of 2018. It was once occupied by Great Britain during the 1860s for a century and a half. Britain made a deal with China that they’d return the territory back to China with the agreement that China would allow Hong Kong to be autonomous and China wouldn’t wouldn’t impose its government on Hong Kong for 50 years. This would be known as the “one country, two systems” policy.
When Britain ceded its control from Hong Kong, China agreed to govern Hong Kong under the principle of "one country, two systems," allowing Hong Kong to be autonomous, except in foreign and defence affairs for 50 years; therefore, Hong Kong has its own legal system, where their rights including freedom of assembly and free speech are protected. Currently, there’s been a lot of tension between the two regions and lot’s of internal conflicts, further escalated by China becoming more extreme on its authoritarian rule.
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A Hong Kong man goes to Taiwan with his pregnant girlfriend and strangles her. Because Taiwan and Hong Kong don’t have an extradition agreement, the government was unable to send him back to Taiwan to face trial.
Carrie Lam's government introduced plans for changes to legislation that would allow for criminal suspects to potentially be extradited to China.
Nearly one million people marched in a generally peaceful rally to the government headquarters to show opposition against the proposed bill.
This is the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover from the UK to China and Protesters stormed the Legislative Council (LegCo) building and destroyed pictures, sprayed graffiti on the walls, and defaced Hong Kong's regional emblem.
Demonstrators were attacked at a train station after returning from protesting by dozens of men wearing masks and white T-shirts, some armed with poles, in the Yuen Long neighborhood. The police were slow to respond and this sparked a massive backlash against the police as there was speculation that the police were cooperating with criminal gangs.
Protesters tried to bring the city to a halt by staging a general strike, disrupting more than 200 flights, occupying shopping malls and blocking roads and rail lines in seven districts. The police responded by firing 800 rounds of tear gas and arresting a multitude of people.
Carrie Lam finally announced that she would withdraw the highly controversial extradition bill which had started the protests, however, her opponents said it was too little, too late.
Citywide protests erupted after riot police stormed the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong universities became the centers of especially large protests in November after the death of a student, Chow Tsz-lok. Across the area, protesters abandoned their strategy of spontaneous demonstrations and began occupying several university campuses. Protesters at the Chinese University of Hong Kong disrupted traffic near University Station by throwing objects onto railway tracks. Police responded by firing rounds of tear gas in the campus, while the protesters responded with petrol bombs, slingshots and arrows. One officer was hit in the leg with an arrow. Police trapped the protestors, mainly made up of students, inside the university by shooting tear gas and rubber bullets on those who attempted to leave. Hundred protesters were trapped inside a university for consecutive days as police laid siege to the campus. More than 1,100 mostly young activists were arrested in what was widely seen as the police’s first major success against the movement. After the siege ended, during a two-day search of the campus, investigators found nearly 4,000 firebombs on the campus, among other weapons, such as other explosive items and bottles of corrosive liquids.
Beijing says it’ll impose national security legislation on Hong Kong, following the often violent anti-government movements and protests last year.
China’s parliament profusely approves imposing national security legislation on Hong Kong to tackle secession, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference.