Valin Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 VOA Erin Hale June 10, 2019 HONG KONG - Hong Kong will proceed with its controversial plan to allow people to be extradited to mainland China to face charges, even after a massive protest on Sunday, the city's top leader said. Estimates of the size of the protest crowds vary between a few hundred thousand and a million. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam told reporters that she and her team “have not ignored any views expressed on this very important piece of legislation” but thought it was important to push forward regardless. ‘We have been listening and listening very attentively and very humbly, to views expressed by various sectors,” she told reporters, adding that the government had made several changes to the bill following public criticism. Under the current bill that will proceed with its second reading at Legislative Council on Wednesday, Hong Kong will in the future be able to extradite to countries where it lacks a long term agreement, like mainland China, Macau and Taiwan. (Snip) ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 June 10 2019 Hong Kong Extradition Bill Prompts Massive Worldwide Protests Over a million people filled the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over a proposed bill that would allow suspects to be extradited to mainland China. Several cities around the world held their own protests to express support for the demonstration and voice their concerns over the bill. Sandi Bachom and Tarik Johnson went on the ground in NYC for Subverse to find out why people are protesting the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 Hong Kong police use tear gas as protesters try to storm parliament June 12 2019 Helen Roxburgh and Elaine Yu (AFP) Violent clashes broke out in Hong Kong on Wednesday as police tried to stop protesters storming the city’s parliament, while tens of thousands of people blocked key arteries in a show of strength against government plans to allow extraditions to China. Police used tear gas, pepper spray and batons to disperse crowds of black-clad demonstrators — most of them young people and students — calling for authorities to scrap the Beijing-backed law. Clashes broke out shortly after 3:00 pm (0700 GMT) — the deadline protesters had given for the government to abandon the controversial bill. Rows of riot police were quickly outnumbered by protesters — many wearing face masks, helmets or goggles — who gathered in the centre of the city ahead of a scheduled debate in the city’s legislature. By late morning, with crowds swelling and major roads blocked by throngs of protesters, officials in the Legislative Council (Legco) said they would delay the second reading of the bill “to a later date”. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Valin Posted June 16, 2019 Author Share Posted June 16, 2019 Hong Kong protest organizers say demonstrations swell to 2 million amid calls for top official to quit Published Sun, Jun 16 2019 6:19 AM EDTUpdated Moments Ago Kelly Olsen and Vivian Kam Massive crowds took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in a rally which organizers say drew almost 2 million people to demand the city’s top official resign a day after she suspended — but did not withdraw — unpopular legislation to allow extraditions to China that opponents say must be scrapped. Citizens, many dressed in black, packed subway carriages as they made their way to participate in the march beginning in the late afternoon in hot, muggy weather. It followed a similar one last Sunday in which hundreds of thousands turned out. Crowds also lined up to take ferries across the city’s famed harbor to join the demonstration. (Snip) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 Protesters demand that embattled Hong Kong leader resign CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA June 17 2019 HONG KONG (AP) — Demonstrators in Hong Kong gathered Monday outside the office of the city’s leader, demanding that she step down in the crisis over a highly unpopular extradition bill that has tested the durability of China’s promises to respect the former British colony’s quasi-autonomy. The mostly young protesters blocked a street near the city’s waterfront as they stood outside the office of Chief Executive Carrie Lam chanting calls for her to cancel the proposed legislation. As night fell, protest leaders debated their next steps. Some wanted to set a deadline for a meeting with Lam. Others decided to head home. Nearly 2 million Hong Kong residents, young and old, joined a march on Sunday that lasted late into the night to express their frustrations with Lam and the extradition bill, backed by Beijing. Many stayed on afterward. (Snip) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 'Sing Hallelujah to the Lord': The unlikely anthem of Hong Kong protests Jessie Pang and Marius Zaharia June 18 2019 Reuters HONG KONG - The Christian hymn “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord” has emerged as the unlikely anthem of Hong Kong’s protests against an extradition bill that have drawn millions of people onto the streets. Protests around the world often develop their own soundtrack, usually songs with lyrics of defiance and solidarity, aiming to keep crowds energized and focused. But the hymn taken up in Hong Kong hardly ticks those boxes. For the past week, the hymn has been heard almost nonstop at the main protest site, in front of the city’s Legislative Council, and at marches and even at tense standoffs with the police. It started with a group of Catholic students who sang several Christian songs at the main protest site, with “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord” catching on among the crowd, even though only about 10 percent of Hong Kongers are Christian. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Valin Posted July 3, 2019 Author Share Posted July 3, 2019 Jul 2, 2019 Hong Kong Protesters Storm Legislative Building, Vandalize Government Offices Using metal poles and trolleys to break the glass, protesters in Hong Kong broke into and vandalized the Legislative Council building on the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover from British to Chinese rule. This was an escalation of recent protests against a proposed extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Hong Kong Protests With A Stiff Upper Lip Posted on July 3, 2019 by The Political Hat Demonstrating the “one state; two systems” that Hong Kong was promised for fifty years after the U.K. handed it over to the People’s Republic of China, Beijing was trying to push through a bill to allow the people of Hong Kong to be “extradited” out to somewhere else in China where what little rights the people of Hong Kong have do not exist. Under ever growing protests, the Beijing appointed Chief Executive Carrie Lam agreed to suspend the bill from consideration. As a result, the protests have only gotten bigger since the people of Hong Kong seem to not want to stop with that one rollback and wish greater protection from an ever encroaching Beijing. Now on the anniversary of the handover from enlightened British administration to the machinations of the butchers of Beijing, the protesters have let Beijing, and the world, know just how much they do not like how the “deal” is being pushed to be changed (and how they are supposed to pray that it doesn’t change further): Protesters stormed Hong Kong’s legislative building, defaced the post-handover emblem of Hong Kong, and raised the colonial flag of Hong Kong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 Protesters stage sit-in at Hong Kong airport as countries, including Singapore, issue travel advisories July 26 2019 HONG KONG - Nearly a thousand protesters staged a sit-in on Friday (July 26) at Hong Kong airport, one of Asia's busiest, as more countries, including Singapore, issued travel advisories for the city. The demonstration came as Hong Kong's government apologised for the police handling of an attack on protesters and commuters last weekend by thugs said to be linked to triads at a train station in the northern district of Yuen Long. In a bid to find new ways to spread their opposition to a contentious extradition Bill, the demonstrators on Friday converged at the Terminal 1 arrival hall of the airport in Lantau, holding up signs with protest slogans to reach foreigners visiting the city. The black-clad protesters then sat on the ground of the airport's group pick-up area, with a small number shouting slogans such as “there’s only a tyranny, no rioters” and “Hong Kong ga yau”, or “come on, Hong Kong” in Cantonese. (Snip) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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