The story started with a gruesome case of a Hong Kong man

The story started with a gruesome case of a Hong Kong man who was accused of strangling his pregnant girlfriend and stuffing her body in a suitcase while they were in Taiwan in 2018, this man ( Chan Tong-Kai ) returned to Hong Kong, and because Hong Kong had no formal extradition treaty with Taiwan, he couldn’t be sent back to face his trial The government of Hong Kong took this case and used it as one of the reasons for proposing amendments which would allow extraditions to countries that lack formal extradition treaties with Hong Kong on a case by case basis.This deal would include China, a nation where it’s citizens are detained if they disobey the government. Hong Kongers are concerned that China would use this legislation to arrest Hong Kongers and people who disagree with the Chinese Government. The rule changes concerned residents as China is accused of kidnapping people from outside its borders.– including from Hong Kong, where it is not considered to have jurisdiction – and withdrawing from China effectively. Typically, that would violate international law. But that bill would grant China legal cover to do so The proposed amendments to the extradition law initially prompted protests in March and April, and pro-democracy and pro-Beijing lawmakers literally came to blow over the bill on the floor of the Hong Kong legislature in May. The government responded by adding some concessions to the bill, such as limiting the extraditable offences. Critics weren’t happyIn early June, the protest movement suddenly took shape. On June 9, as many as one million people protested peacefully against the bill in Hong Kong as Lam planned to push it through the Hong Kong legislature. The immense display of resistance — as much as one-seventh displayed by the entire population of Hong Kong — did not convince Lam to back down. Protesters swarmed the area near the Hong Kong legislature on June 12, disrupting the discussion that would ultimately have required the proposed amendments to the extradition law to pass quickly. Such demonstrations were met with violence, officers charging the protesters with tear gas, rubber bullets and beanbags.Amid the huge protests that took place on June 12, Lam “suspended indefinitely”” the bill that would have changed the extradition statute.Yet Hong Kong’s decision to suspend the bill did not satisfy many who saw it as nothing more than a standard tactic of hesitation. “”She’s trying to delay and hope people forget about Hong Kong