What Chinese Citizens Have and Haven’t Learned About Hong Kong’s Protests(bloomberg.com)
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What Chinese Citizens Have and Haven’t Learned About Hong Kong’s Protests
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-17/china-censors-turn-the-blame-for-hong-kong-protests-to-the-u-s
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For what I have understood, the issue is that the bill is a loophole in which they can essentially indict a individual with dubious charges until they fullfill the threshold, and then absorb him into mainland China, at which point he's outside any legal guarantee and the real trial can begin.
The first part of the PDF from the legco.gov.hk states that it must be double-criminalty, which means the act that the person being extradited must be a crime for both jurisdiction.
There's also no double jeopardy, no political indictments.
Suppose the CE is in cahoots, it then goes to the courts, which has been the least affected because the elites in HK depends on it for their business dealings.
Suppose the CE is in cahoots, it then goes to the courts, which has been the least affected because the elites in HK depends on it for their business dealings.
What is the UN stance on this issue btw?
Probably silence, since China can veto any security council resolution, and a lot of the countries in the general assembly probably don't care to make waves (if they even care at all) since they want Chinese money.
Why would the UN have a stance on this?
It's been hugely magnified the media, but it is no more than a government bringing a bill forward and people demonstrating against it.
This often happens in most Western countries and no-one asks the UN what they think about it.
Perhaps time to put things into perspective.
It's been hugely magnified the media, but it is no more than a government bringing a bill forward and people demonstrating against it.
This often happens in most Western countries and no-one asks the UN what they think about it.
Perhaps time to put things into perspective.
It's only an international affair because the Chinese government has gone full paranoid and blame other countries because their people didn't like the bill.
Anyway, massive demonstrations are usually newsworthy, like the Yellow Vests in France until a few months ago.
Anyway, massive demonstrations are usually newsworthy, like the Yellow Vests in France until a few months ago.
Ever noticed that none of the articles so far has actually articulated what's bad about the extradition bill? The reporting language is typically either "Beijing-backed extradition bill", or some form of "extradition bill opposed by Hong Kongers"
https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr18-19/english/bills/brief/b201903... is the older version of the bill, which did not contain the concession that bumped the minimum prison sentence requirement from 3-years to 7-years, before the protest started, from one of the news article I read.
SCMP, which is basically the English language newspaper of record in HK, has this infographic https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/hong-kong/arti...