Hong Kong leader withdraws controversial extradition bill
Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam, said on Wednesday that the detested extradition bill that sparked months of protests across the city would be withdrawn.
“Incidents over these past two months have shocked and saddened Hong Kong people,” Ms Lam said in a broadcast shortly before 6 p.m. in Hong Kong. “We are all very anxious about Hong Kong, our home. We all hope to find a way out of the current impasse and unsettling times.” The protesters, chanting “Five key demands, not one less,” demanded that an independent probe into the use of force by police, amnesty for arrested protesters, an end to categorising the protests as riots and the implementation of universal suffrage.
The protests began in early June after Ms Lam introduced a bill that will send Hong Kong citizens to China to face trial on some criminal charges. The citizens immediately opposed the bill, saying they would not submit themselves to the opaque judicial system in China.
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