‘No to China extradition’ – Hong Kong protest against controversial new law

Post by heraclius » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

utbabya wrote: post #11

heraclius wrote: post #10

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Not sure that turnout is over a million. Even HKFP are being cautious and only switched from “tens” to “hundreds” of thousands about an hour ago. I do hope that you are right though! And even 1 in 10 or 15 would be remarkable. Edit: the SCMP has some turnout figures. As usual they vary wildly.¹ 1. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013725...

I just gathered it from live video, local forum posts, news and my intuition of the size of Hong Kong island (it's all full with people still being stuck in the train system from Kowloon side). From images, it's also visually much bigger than the previous ~500K turnout protest. But yeah it's intuition after all so I could be wrong. Still, numbers in the 60K range is just impossible. Edit: By gather and intuition, I m…

Post by lozenge » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 11:25 AM UTC

Renaud wrote: post #6

This is huge for Hong Kong. It's not just a standard extradition agreement like existing ones made with other countries. With Hong Kong under China's foot, there is a grave risk that any -unverifiable- trumped up charge made in the Mainland against dissidents and those voicing discontent against the Chinese government would result in potential extradition to China, a country that has no rule of law and where torture…

Post by A2017U1 » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 11:41 AM UTC

heraclius wrote: post #10

utbabya wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't believe this makes it to HN, although I feel politics is off topic I can't help but to feed to this because it means so much to me. Over a million people, or 1 out of 5-7 people walked out against this tighten grip. The whole Hong Kong island is dead lock now. China has been subtly (or so much with this attempt) trying to erode our freedom, rule of law and culture. Shamefully I'm not physically in Hong Kong. Th…

Not sure that turnout is over a million. Even HKFP are being cautious and only switched from “tens” to “hundreds” of thousands about an hour ago. I do hope that you are right though! And even 1 in 10 or 15 would be remarkable. Edit: the SCMP has some turnout figures. As usual they vary wildly.¹ 1. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013725...

Post by jasonlingx » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 12:39 PM UTC

Renaud wrote: post #6

This is huge for Hong Kong. It's not just a standard extradition agreement like existing ones made with other countries. With Hong Kong under China's foot, there is a grave risk that any -unverifiable- trumped up charge made in the Mainland against dissidents and those voicing discontent against the Chinese government would result in potential extradition to China, a country that has no rule of law and where torture…

Post by Renaud » Sun, Jun 09, 2019, 12:55 PM UTC

jasonlingx wrote: post #18

Renaud wrote: post #6

This is huge for Hong Kong. It's not just a standard extradition agreement like existing ones made with other countries. With Hong Kong under China's foot, there is a grave risk that any -unverifiable- trumped up charge made in the Mainland against dissidents and those voicing discontent against the Chinese government would result in potential extradition to China, a country that has no rule of law and where torture…

Is there a point to this? Isn’t Hong Kong already a part of sovereign China? Doesn’t China already freely “extradite” anyone they want from Hong Kong?