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- Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam indefinitely delayed a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
- The proposed extradition bill had allowed the city government to extradite any suspect to places with which Hong Kong does not have extradition accords.
- Civil society groups and Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists warned that the bill will allow mainland China to deepen its influence in Hong Kong.
- When Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997 by Britain, it was agreed that the city would remain a semi-autonomous region under the Basic Law.
- That law would have damaged the existing “One Country Two Systems” model between Mainland China and Hong Kong.
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