The extradition bill that has sparked Hong Kong’s biggest political crisis in decades is dead, territory leader Carrie Lam says.
The bill, which would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China to face trial, has sparked weeks of huge and sometimes violent street protests and plunged the former British colony into turmoil.
At midday on Tuesday (ADST), Ms Lam announced it would be abandoned, admitting the Hong Kong government’s work on the controversial bill had been a “total failure”.
She had already responded to huge protests across the territory by suspending work on the proposed legislation in mid-June.
But that failed to mollify critics, who continued to demonstrate against the bill and call for Ms Lam’s resignation. A week ago, protesters broke in to the Hong Kong Legislative Council building, to demand the bill be withdrawn.
Hong Kong was returned to China from Britain in 1997.
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