Hong Kong Leader Gives In, Stops Extradition Bill from being passed
Bowing to tens of thousands protesting for the past week, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam
has indefinitely suspended a proposed extradition law that potentially
allowed China’s central government to arrest people in its
semi-autonomous territory. While insisting that the law would improve
security, Lam said she was “heartbroken” and urged the restoration of
“calmness in society” and defended police action against demonstrators.
With leaders of the 2014 Umbrella Movement jailed or exiled, protesters
organized organically, such that supplies, medical care and
communication is arranged virally, to the point where a protester
touching her head quickly received a helmet.
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