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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 11 2019, @03:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the resistance-is-futile dept.

Hong Kong pushes bill allowing extraditions to China despite biggest protest since handover

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam vowed on Monday to push ahead with amendments to laws allowing suspects to be extradited to mainland China a day after the city's biggest protest since its handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997.

Riot police ringed Hong Kong's legislature and fought back a hardcore group of several hundred protesters who stayed behind early on Monday after Sunday's peaceful march that organizers said drew more than a million people, or one in seven of the city's people.

"I don't think it is (an) appropriate decision for us now to pull out of this bill because of the very important objectives that this bill is intended to achieve," a somber Lam told reporters while flanked by security and justice chiefs.

Also at NYT.

See also: Here’s How Hong Kong’s Proposed Extradition Law Will Impact Its Competitiveness


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:41AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:41AM (#854109)

    US there long before who, exactly? China has been around for 5000 years, the US has been around for - well - a little bit less than 5000 years, right?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:50AM (#854120)

    US there long before who, exactly?

    The 'there' is the issue at hand, not the 'age' of the nation.
    As in, China not having today the same capabilities as US to deal with its troublemakers abroad.

    China has been around for 5000 years, the US has been around for - well - a little bit less than 5000 years, right?

    Irrelevant for the issue, as irrelevant as making the reference to the 60,000 years of continued Australian Aboriginal civilization.

    Word of advice: don't play stupid, you may end stuck in this state and not even realising it.