Wong was also recently arrested for participating in the extradition bill protests.

Protesters holding banners opposing the extradition bill in Hong Kong's New Town Plaza on Aug. 5, 2019.

But for many Hong Kong residents, the extradition bill is the latest step in a relentless march toward mainland control.

Currently, debate of the extradition bill has been “indefinitely suspended” after Lam’s stunning backed down on June 15 from continuing efforts to ram the bill through the council.

What started as an angry response to the now suspended extradition bill, has expanded to demands for greater democracy and the resignation of leader Carrie Lam.

Protesters hold banners as they take part in a march against a controversial extradition bill on July 14, 2019 in Sha Tin district, Hong Kong.

In the 2019 anti-extradition bill movement, Lee and the Alliance in Support of our Police Force also supported the Hong Kong government and police in suppressing protesters.

Since early June, millions of Hongkongers have protested an extradition bill that proposed allowing people to be transferred to mainland China for trial.

In May 2019, at the bidding of the CCP authorities, Carrie Lam shoved forward the draft amendments of the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, also called the 2019 Extradition Bill, sparking major public outrage.

The bill, which would allow any country, including mainland China, to seek extradition of criminal suspects, has drawn broad opposition.

Li Wenliang, one of the first whistleblowers on the outbreak of CCP virus in Wuhan; real estate developer and dissident Ren Zhiqiang; authoritarian Chinese leader Xi Jinping; and the Hong Kong protests against the 2019 extradition bill.

However, many in Hong Kong view the extradition bill as the latest indication of Beijing’s encroachment in local affairs.

People from the finance community hold up umbrellas and shine lights during a rally against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong, on Aug. 01, 2019. (Billy H.C.

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Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets since mid-June in protests at a now-suspended extradition bill which would see people sent to mainland China for trial in notorious Communist Party controlled courts.

A man sticks notes on the wall near the Legislative Council building, as people gather to wait for a government announcement regarding the proposed extradition bill, in Hong Kong, China on June 15, 2019.

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Protesters smash glass doors and windows to break into the parliament chamber of Legislative Council Complex protest against the extradition bill in Hong Kong on July 1, 2019. (Billy H.C.

The protests now center around five demands: the complete withdrawal of the extradition bill; the release of arrested protesters without charges; the withdrawal of the characterization of all protests as riots; an independent investigation into police

Others held up "No Extradition" signs calling on the Hong Kong government to categorically scrap the extradition bill rather than merely suspend it as they have done now.

The highest Chinese legislature enacted the Hong Kong national security law in June 2020, in the wake of massive protests sparked by a controversial extradition bill that would significantly undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy.

Protesters holding banners opposing the extradition bill in Hong Kong's New Town Plaza on Aug. 5, 2019.

Protesters march towards the West Kowloon railway station during a protest against the proposed extradition bill in Hong Kong on July 7, 2019.

Protestors are shrouded in tear gas during a protest against a proposed extradition bill, near Hong Kong's Legislative Council on June 12, 2019.

Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index has fallen by nearly 10 percent since April, when protests against the controversial extradition bill first escalated.

Men in white T-shirts and carrying poles talk to riot police in Yuen Long after attacking anti-extradition bill demonstrators at a train station in Hong Kong, on July 22, 2019.

Lam said the effort to amend an extradition bill was dead, but refused to withdraw it as protesters have demanded.

Protesters fill the streets in a march against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong on July 1, 2019.

It also comes on the same day that a new Extradition Bill is expected to gain the royal assent it needs to become law.

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