Hong Kong: A City On Edge | Insight | Full Episode

• CNA Published on Jul 23, 2019
  What really lies at the core of the widespread opposition against Hong Kong’s extradition bill? The extradition bill was intended to allow criminal suspects from Hong Kong to be extradited to other countries, including mainland China, to stand trial. But the introduction of the bill in Parliament has triggered a wave of protests from democratic activists, lawyers and the business community who want to see the legislation scrapped and withdrawn. The protests however went out of control and quickly turned into violence when protesters clashed with the police. They also stormed into and ransacked the city’s Legislative Council out of anger. Why has the bill created so much anger and animosity among large segments of the Hong Kong society more than 20 years after the city handover to China?

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