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I thought the site posting this was going to be a religious site.

I did not expect it from a msm news outlet.

Which makes it even more shocking.

And beautiful.

I have NO IDEA how China has been handling Hong Kong and how much freedom or lack of they have.

What’s the extradition bit all about? thanks

Presently there is no agreement allowing extradition of “criminals” from Hong Kong to Mainland China. The chief executive of HK, a pro Mainland China lady named Carrie Lam, tried to pass a law that would allow extradition, claiming that it would prevent “criminals” from hiding out in HK. People saw that through that quickly, because Mainland China could call anyone who doesn’t agree with it a “criminal” (disturbing social peace or something like that), and then drag them off to Mainland China to be imprisoned. So no one in HK would be safe and HK would quickly crumble to total Mainland control although it is supposed to be quasi-independent for 50 years. (HK still has a British-style legal system.)

The protests have been huge, I think the biggest one was estimated to be between 1 and 2 million people who participated.

RE: What’s the extradition bit all about? thanks

BACKGROUND:

In early 2018, 19-year-old Hong Kong resident Chan Tong-kai allegedly killed his pregnant girlfriend Poon Hiu-wing in Taiwan, proceeding to return to Hong Kong. Chan admitted to Hong Kong police that he killed Poon but the police were unable to charge him for murder or extradite him to Taiwan because no agreement is in place.

Until May 2019, the two ordinances in Hong Kong, the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance, were not applicable to the requests for surrender of fugitive offenders and mutual legal assistance between Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In February 2019, the government proposed changes to fugitive laws, establishing a mechanism for case-by-case transfers of fugitives by the Hong Kong Chief Executive to any jurisdiction with which the city lacks a formal extradition treaty, which it claimed would close the “legal loophole”

The Bill was first proposed by the Hong Kong government in February 2019 in response to the 2018 homicide case of a Hong Kong couple in Taiwan. The government said that the amendment to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance (Cap. 503) and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation Ordinance (Cap. 525) would establish a mechanism for case-by-case transfers of fugitives by the Chief Executive to not only Taiwan, BUT ALSO MAINLAND CHINA , with which the city lacks a formal extradition treaty.

AS a result of INCLUDING MAINLAND CHINA in the extradition bill, which people originally wanted to ONLY involve Taiwan, things went haywire.

Concerns were raised from all sectors of the community, including legal professionals, journalists, human rights groups and business chambers. Opposition expressed fears about the legislation that the city would open itself up to the long arm of mainland Chinese Communist law and that people from Hong Kong fall victim to a different legal system.

It therefore urged the government to establish an extradition arrangement with Taiwan only, and to sunset the arrangement immediately after the surrender of suspect.

When the HK Legislature refused to consider this, the protests started.