Introduction – “Glory to Hong Kong”: Exploring Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill 2019 (Anti-ELAB) Protests and Their Implications
A week after an estimated 1.03 million people marched on 9th June 2019 to protest against the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill by the Hong Kong government which triggered the fear that the bill if enacted would subject Hong Kong residents and visitors to the jurisdiction and leg...
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| description | A week after an estimated 1.03 million people marched on 9th June 2019 to protest against the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill by the Hong Kong government which triggered the fear that the bill if enacted would subject Hong Kong residents and visitors to the jurisdiction and legal system of mainland China, thereby undermining the region’s autonomy and Hong Kong people’s civil liberties, on 16th June 2019 up to approximately two million people, i.e. approaching 30 per cent of Hong Kong’s population, again took to the streets in Hong Kong to further the protest and to voice anger towards the perceived excessive use of force by the police on 12th June when protesters gathered outside the Legislative Council Complex to stall the bill’s second reading. Though the extradition bill was suspended on 15th June and finally withdrawn on 23rd October, the protests have by then morphed into a broader-purpose movement including demand for the introduction of universal suffrage for election of the Legislative Council and the Chief Executive, one of the five demands on which the government has continued to refuse to concede other than the bill withdrawal. “They want freedom the same way we wanted it,” so said the Lithuanian supporters of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill 2019 (Anti-ELAB) protests as tens of thousands of protesters formed the “Hong Kong Way” human chains across Hong Kong on 23rd August 2019 at the 30th anniversary of the 1989 “Baltic Way” when 2 million people in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia held hands to form a thousand-and-hundred-mile human chain spanning the three nations in their valiant struggle for democracy and freedom from the Soviet Communist yoke. While the element of regaining independence from the Soviet Union that re-occupied them after the defeat of their German Nazi occupiers at the end of World War II bears little similarity to the practical reality of the case of Hong Kong, free thought and free speech and related political freedom and civil liberties are international ideals, sans borders, and the struggle against political persecution of dissent and human rights infringement is also transborder, and it has to be recognised as such, despite the efforts of autocratic, repressive regimes to discredit this international link by resorting to exclusionist ethnonationalism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-21b515bbccdd46aab20c022f1d6706e92022-12-21T22:27:03ZengNational Sun Yat-sen UniversityContemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal2410-96812410-96812020-12-0163819830Introduction – “Glory to Hong Kong”: Exploring Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill 2019 (Anti-ELAB) Protests and Their ImplicationsEmile Kok-Kheng Yeoh0C.C. Pol ec S.R. (ed.), Taiwan & Malaysia / México y la Cuenca del Pacífico (comité de arbitraje internacional), MéxicoA week after an estimated 1.03 million people marched on 9th June 2019 to protest against the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill by the Hong Kong government which triggered the fear that the bill if enacted would subject Hong Kong residents and visitors to the jurisdiction and legal system of mainland China, thereby undermining the region’s autonomy and Hong Kong people’s civil liberties, on 16th June 2019 up to approximately two million people, i.e. approaching 30 per cent of Hong Kong’s population, again took to the streets in Hong Kong to further the protest and to voice anger towards the perceived excessive use of force by the police on 12th June when protesters gathered outside the Legislative Council Complex to stall the bill’s second reading. Though the extradition bill was suspended on 15th June and finally withdrawn on 23rd October, the protests have by then morphed into a broader-purpose movement including demand for the introduction of universal suffrage for election of the Legislative Council and the Chief Executive, one of the five demands on which the government has continued to refuse to concede other than the bill withdrawal. “They want freedom the same way we wanted it,” so said the Lithuanian supporters of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill 2019 (Anti-ELAB) protests as tens of thousands of protesters formed the “Hong Kong Way” human chains across Hong Kong on 23rd August 2019 at the 30th anniversary of the 1989 “Baltic Way” when 2 million people in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia held hands to form a thousand-and-hundred-mile human chain spanning the three nations in their valiant struggle for democracy and freedom from the Soviet Communist yoke. While the element of regaining independence from the Soviet Union that re-occupied them after the defeat of their German Nazi occupiers at the end of World War II bears little similarity to the practical reality of the case of Hong Kong, free thought and free speech and related political freedom and civil liberties are international ideals, sans borders, and the struggle against political persecution of dissent and human rights infringement is also transborder, and it has to be recognised as such, despite the efforts of autocratic, repressive regimes to discredit this international link by resorting to exclusionist ethnonationalism.https://icaps.nsysu.edu.tw/var/file/131/1131/img/CCPS6(3)-introduction.pdfhong konganti-extradition bill protestspro-democracy movementchina |
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| title | Introduction – “Glory to Hong Kong”: Exploring Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill 2019 (Anti-ELAB) Protests and Their Implications |
| title_full | Introduction – “Glory to Hong Kong”: Exploring Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill 2019 (Anti-ELAB) Protests and Their Implications |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Introduction – “Glory to Hong Kong”: Exploring Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill 2019 (Anti-ELAB) Protests and Their Implications |
| title_short | Introduction – “Glory to Hong Kong”: Exploring Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill 2019 (Anti-ELAB) Protests and Their Implications |
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| topic | hong kong anti-extradition bill protests pro-democracy movement china |
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