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It all started after a 19 year-old Hong Kong male murdered his 20 year-old girlfriend in Taiwan, and he fled back to Hong Kong. Since the incident happened in Taiwan, Taiwan officials was unable to charge the person murder since there was no proper extradition deal between Hong Kong and Taiwan. Hong Kong government later proposed a bill that was designed to plug the loophole by allowing Hong Kong to decide case-by-case whether to send back fugitives to territories that were not in the extradition deal such as Taiwan, Macau, and Mainland China. However, the bill did not include an opened fair trial in the bill. Hence, many concerns that it may affect the legal system in Hong Kong as the bill may include democracy activists from Mainland China.

More than a million of people gathered on Wednesday to peacefully protest against the bill. They took over the streets, hoping there was a chance to change government's mind; however, the government refused to withdraw the bill and calls the demonstration "a riot". Police came in action and started using tear gas, pepper spray and rubber-bullets-loaded gun to push back the protesters. 72 people ranged from 16 to 55 year old were injured according to the report.

The fact that the government could ignore more than a million of their people's opinion is making me very sad. It is just like the umbrella movement back in 2014 when China did nothing about the demand of a more democratic voting system. A lot of Hong Kong people lost their faith because of that, but they still decided to have their voice heard again because this is important.

People in Hong Kong, please stay safe! 香港加油!

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-ch…

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It all started after a 19 year-old Hong Kong male murdered his 20 year-old girlfriend in Taiwan, and he fled back to Hong Kong. Since the incident happened in Taiwan, Taiwan officials was unable to charge the person murder since there was no proper extradition deal between Hong Kong and Taiwan. Hong Kong government later proposed a bill that was designed to plug the loophole by allowing Hong Kong to decide case-by-case whether to send back fugitives to territories that were not in the extradition deal such as Taiwan, Macau, and Mainland China. However, the bill did not include an opened fair trial in the bill. Hence, many concerns that it may affect the legal system in Hong Kong as the bill may include democracy activists from Mainland China.

More than a million of people gathered on Wednesday to peacefully protest against the bill. They took over the streets, hoping there was a chance to change government's mind; however, the government refused to withdraw the bill and calls the demonstration "a riot". Police came in action and started using tear gas, pepper spray and rubber-bullets-loaded gun to push back the protesters. 72 people ranged from 16 to 55 year old were injured according to the report.

The fact that the government could ignore more than a million of their people's opinion is making me very sad. It is just like the umbrella movement back in 2014 when China did nothing about the demand of a more democratic voting system. A lot of Hong Kong people lost their faith because of that, but they still decided to have their voice heard again because this is important.

People in Hong Kong, please stay safe! 香港加油!

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-ch…