SHAME-FREE thread: ask the dumbest question you have about the Hong Kong protests. I'll try to answer it or loop in a real Hong Konger to answer it for you. No question too ignorant or basic.
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One of the demands was met, which was the formal withdrawal of the extradition bill. But that was too little, too late. The biggest issue right now is the police brutality that has gone unpunished and uninvestigated. That demand is much of the motor driving the protests.
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Hong Kong, by a treaty signed with britain, is supposed to be an autonomous part of China, with its own laws and government, until 2047. That autonomy is what Hong Kongers are now fighting to keep. They were also promised the right to vote, which has never been implemented.
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And the original story to that extradition bill was because a young man killed his girlfriend on a trip to Taiwan. He came back to HK and couldn't be trialed for the murder because there is no extradition agreement between HK and Taipei. Chief Executive of HK then started this.
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HOWEVER: Taiwan at the time agreed and offered a one-time extradition which the entire gov leadership ignored and didn't respond to. HKers feared that there will be unlawful and biased arrests of HK citizens who'll be extradited to China w/o trial once the bill passes.
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