For more than three months, masses Hongkongers have filled the streets calling for the Hong Kong government to fully withdraw a now suspended extradition bill.

The main fuel for the protests that oppose the extradition bill has been ongoing violations of fundamental rights and freedoms by Hong Kong police. Their dangerous and indiscriminate use of deterrents has resulted in serious injuries.

Lam has suspended the hated extradition bill and said it would lapse next year. But the protesters want it scrapped and have called for Lam to step down.

What began as public outrage in June against a now-withdrawn extradition bill has since grown into calls for greater freedom in the city and opposition against the long arms of Chinese regime control.

Several netizens from Shanghai and Beijing told NTD that the police mainly check whether there are photos or videos about recent Hong Kong protests against a controversial extradition bill, a topic banned in mainland China.

City-wide demonstrations in Hong Kong, now entering the 19th week, began with mass opposition against an extradition bill but have since shifted to calls for greater democracy, the rule of law, and basic freedoms in the face of growing Chinese Communist

bill to be withdrawn.

Recent protests in Hong Kong against a controversial extradition bill has fueled anti-Chinese-Communist-Party sentiments in Taiwan.

Protesters fear that a proposed extradition bill would endanger the city’s autonomy.

The sometimes violent street protests erupted over a now scrapped extradition bill that could have sent people to mainland China for trial, but they later broadened into wider calls for democracy.

Anti-extradition bill protesters walk through Sham Shui Po neighborhood in Hong Kong, China on Aug. 11, 2019.

The protests, which have continued for over two months, began in opposition to an extradition bill that would allow people to be transferred to the mainland for trial.

The protests started four months ago in opposition to a now withdrawn extradition bill that would have allowed suspects to be sent to China, but have broadened into a pro-democracy movement amid fear that Beijing is undermining Hong Kong's "one country

Most protesters in Hong Kong who have been opposing a controversial extradition bill wear black clothing.

Although the recent protests were sparked by an extradition bill that was later scrapped, demonstrators are continuing calls against CCP interference seen in the 2014 Umbrella movement, and are making "five demands" that include universal suffrage in

What started as opposition to a now-withdrawn extradition bill has grown into a pro-democracy movement against what is seen as Beijing's increasing grip on the city, which protesters say undermines a "one country, two systems" status promised when Hong

After the Chinese Communist regime blocked news reports about the June 9 protest of an extradition bill that occurred in Hong Kong, a retired professor of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China has anxiously returned to Hong Kong to

(Tyrone Siu/Reuters) “Since the anti-extradition bill movement started in June, there have been many shady deals, hundreds of people have gone missing, and the number of 'suicides' has grown exponentially.

The protests were dubbed the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (ELAB) Movement. A number of pro-democracy MPs questioned the administration's excessive use of police force and indiscriminate arrests at the time.

When another reporter asked whether she would give some concessions to protesters, Lam responded by saying that she had announced the formal withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill, which sparked the current protests, back on Sept. 4.

Although the city’s leader Carrie Lam in early September announced that the government would withdraw the extradition bill that triggered the mass protests, this has not assuaged protesters’ concerns.

However, during the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong in 2019, Li failed to show his support for the CCP. That was when the CCP began to marginalize the property tycoon, who was seen as no longer obedient to the Party.

The protests began three months ago in opposition to an extradition bill that many felt would erode Hong Kong’s autonomy.

Lam’s popularity has plunged since over 1 million Hongkongers took to the streets on June 9 last year to voice their opposition to the government’s controversial extradition bill that has since been fully-scrapped.

Protesters march on a street during a rally against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong on June 9, 2019.

(Issac Lawrence/AFP/Getty Images) Anger Opposition over a now-withdrawn extradition bill in June has since broadened into calls for universal suffrage, greater democracy, and independent investigation into police violence.

(Hong Kong branch of The Epoch Times) Hong Kong police have arrested over 7,500 people since June last year—the start of the current anti-CCP and pro-democracy movement that was sparked over the since-scrapped extradition bill.

The platform was proposed by Lam during a press conference on Aug. 20, two days after more than 1.7 million people took to the streets in protest of a now-suspended extradition bill.

Hong Kong, a former British colony that reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, has been embroiled in the city’s worst crisis since mass protests broke out over a controversial extradition bill in early June.

Initial protests about a now-withdrawn extradition bill have since broadened to include demands for greater democracy.