HONG KONG: The extradition bill that sparked the territory’s biggest political crisis in decades was dead, admitting that the government’s work on the bill had been a “total failure”, said Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday.
The bill, which would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China to face trial, sparked huge and violent street protests in the former British colony.
In mid-June Lam responded to huge protests by suspending the bill, but that move failed to placate critics, who continued to demonstrate against the bill and call for Lam’s resignation.
Hong Kong was returned to China from Britain in 1997.
(Agencies)
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