Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protest 2019-2020 by Alex Chan Tsz Yuk

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Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protest 2019-2020

Copyright Alex Chan Tsz Yuk 2025

Updated Aug 2023

Location Hong Kong

Topics Action, Activism, Civil Rights, Documentary, Editorial, Human Rights, International Stories, Journalism, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, Revolution

In 2019, the Hong Kong government introduced a controversial bill to the public society, allowing the extradition of fugitives to mainland China and prosecuting people for political reasons under China’s opaque legal system. Therefore triggering one of the most important and violent pro-democracy anti-government protests, from the beginning as one of the biggest peaceful mass marches in history into the city’s biggest political crisis, as citizens stood up and demanded a systematic change or the Independence of Hong Kong.

Following the protest eventually cooled down in 2020, authorities started a brutal and intensifying crackdown on the city, introducing the Hong Kong National Security Law, shutting down independent media, arresting opposition leaders, silencing dissent among the society, citing fears to the citizens, further bringing the once semi-autonomous city into turmoil.
Since the launch of the BNO visa scheme, over 144,000 Hongkongers have moved to the United Kingdom, and others decided to move across the globe, including Canada, Taiwan and Europe.

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香港政府在2019年向公眾提出了一項頗具爭議的法案，允許中國在不透明的法律體系下，以政治理由起訴逃犯，並將逃犯引渡到中國大陸，此舉引起香港人的激烈反對，憂慮言論自由及人權有可能進一步被侵犯，因而引發了一系列重大而激烈的民主反政府抗議活動，大量的香港公民要求香港政府進行系統性的改革、其中爭取香港獨立的呼聲漸大，由香港歷史上規模最大的和平群眾遊行演變成大規模暴力示威，引發巨大的政治危機。
惟2020年，因疫情和群眾動能漸漸下降，民間的抗議活動逐漸縮減，政府亦於2020年進一步收緊對公眾的管制，由中國直接制定《香港國安法》，立法禁止七類危害國家安全的行為，其後接連關閉獨立媒體及逮捕打壓異見人士、記者，以壓制社會異見及清除異黨。模糊不穩的政治法律環境引起不少香港人的強烈不安和恐懼，導致香港出現大規模的移民潮，不少人分別選擇移居加拿大、台灣、歐洲等各地，當中更有超過 144,000 名香港人憑藉BNO簽證計劃移居英國。

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