I am sure you have heard about the Hong Kong protests going on right now. They are about an extradition bill that would allow anyone with a jail sentence above some amount of years (was raised from 3 to 7 years before it was removed) to be extradited to Taiwan or China. This extradition bill caused months of protests, since many pro-democracy activists got for the umbrella protest back few years ago a 5 year prison sentence, hence could get extradited by that law to China. In China they may face death sentences or life sentences after forced confession on Chinese state TV. This can be especially dangerous if the individual has a religion banned in China (Islam or Falun Gong) which might bring him into a concentration camp.
The reason the government claimed to want this extradition treaty was due to a murder case. A HK citizen flew with his pregnant girlfriend to Taiwan and murdered her there. When he came back he could not get extradited, because there was no extradition treaty. He also could not get trialed because the court was not responsible for whatever crimes he committed abroad.
It is an excuse needed because the Hongkong government is pro-beijing. Only half of the seats were democratically elected, and some of the democratic elected seats were disqualified due to their involvement in the umbrella movement (pro democracy protests). The other half of the seats are selected in the economic interest of HK. Since HK trades a lot with China, these seats are mostly pro-China, hence allowing China to influence HK politics before the 50 year Autonomy treaty with UK expires (which was signed when UK handed over the HK colony).
The extradition treaty is now canceled due to 25% of the entire HK population camping out on the streets protesting for months. The protests still continue though as the HK population wants the excessive police violence used during the protests to come to court (and 3 other demands such as not being called rioters as protestor, arrested protestors getting free and universal sufferage). The country is basically stuck and nothing is functioning. "five demands not one less".
Now the murder suspect that started all that mess decided to hand him self in to Taiwan's police, and a pastor has donated him the plane tickets to do so. Taiwan refused though to allow an criminal to freely travel into the country to hand him self in hence offered to send a police officer to arrest him there. HK though saw this as a breach of sovereignty (ironically when they were the ones who wanted to get the extradition treaty in the first place). After so much farce, the murder suspect whose actions started this entire mess is unable to hand him self in and is forced to be free.
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The protests are very suspicious. Why did the population got so angry because a criminal would be extradited? It makes no sense. Are people in Hong Kong in favour of murder?
that the murder goes unpunished despite the murderer asking for it is tragic, but this is just the excuse of the government for the law... the pro beijing government has direct orders from beijing to increase the influence of china in hong kong... this was made very clear in Lam's audio leak where she explained that the chinese government would not allow her to resign despite her thinking that going against all of hong kong is unacceptable...
china tries its best to also influence elections and some people who practice free speech have been kidnapped also from within hongkong to china (such as a book shop owner who sold copies of a banned book about mao zhedong)... apple and other american cooperations enable china do censorship in hongkong by asking apple to ban certain apps in hongkong and taiwan for example (despite china having no say in this matter and this act by apple is illegal)... if people can be jailed for over 5 years in hongkong for simply protesting, they can be extradited to do so... the protestors are facing in the end more punishment than the murderer... china should wait another 30 years before it is allowed to gain control and interfere in hong kongs autonomy (according to the treaty with UK about colonial handover)... its the freedom in the future that is at stake, as china subtelly tightens its grip over hong kong... during the protests the elderly that were interviewed stated they have no reason to protest of them self as they will be dead in 30 years but they protest for the young
"that the murder goes unpunished despite the murderer asking for it is tragic, but this is just the excuse of the government for the law"
But not changing the law will allow anyone to commit crimes like this. Why doesn't the people want the law to change? It seems like a very stupid law right now.
it is a stupid law... if i commit a murder anywhere then in germany i could be brought to justice... it would have sucked even more for hong kong if similar to germany they had a lot of citizen going to fight with ISIS and they could not trial them at home (which is possible in germany as long as they can find out what specific crimes are commited)...
but the laws could be made to broaden the area of violation... instead they opt for an extradition treaty so they can target hong kong protestors... democracy and freedom of expression and protest in hong kong is here at stake
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