When Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says that the world has reached a critical inflection point, that “liberal democracy is under greater threat as an idea than at any time since the Second World War,” we might take heart that at least somebody in Ottawa has a clue about what’s at stake these days.
The legislation is being rammed through Hong Kong’s officially gerrymandered legislative council by Chief Executive Carrie Lam, a Beijing puppet. The law would require Hong Kong authorities to transfer criminal suspects to China, without any review by Hong Kong’s purposely hamstrung legislature. Its passage would deal a crippling blow to the independence of Hong Kong’s legal system, which was supposed to have been guaranteed by the Anglo-Chinese surrender agreement 22 years ago.
To no avail, the extradition bill has been the subject of protests by human rights organizations, international business groups, diplomats and the Hong Kong barristers association. Last month, as many as 130,000 Hong Kongers joined a protest march to denounce the proposed law. It was the largest street protest in the Hong King since the eruption of the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in 2014.
Last week, another six democracy activists were found guilty of unlawful assembly, obstructing police and incitement arising from protests in 2016. Most prominent among them was League of Social Democrats chairman Avery Ng Man-yuen.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Why should we care? We have enough of our own issues. Let them slide we don't need them.
After building more coal fired power plants, lying about ozone damaging chemicals being pumped into the atmosphere; fuck China in general.
Why would we care ? This is their fight.
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