Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements |
Editors | David A. Snow, Donatella della Porta, Doug McAdam, Bert Klandermans |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 1-6 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Edition | 2nd |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780470674871 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781405197731 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 Jun 2022 |
Abstract
The Anti-extradition Law Amendment Bill movement, in short the Anti-extradition movement, was a mass mobilization that erupted in Hong Kong between February 2019 and January 2020. Also known as an anti-authoritarian uprising or the freedom summer, the year-long movement was triggered by the Hong Kong SAR government's attempt to amend its extradition law that would allow suspects to be extradited to Mainland China. The movement comprised hundreds of protest events, with a few of them featuring turnouts of over a million people. While opposition against the bill began to foment in February with a series of small-scale demonstrations and online campaigns that framed it as an existential threat to civil freedoms, the movement officially started on 9 June, when an estimated one million people took part in a peaceful rally. Protesters shouted “no extradition to China” throughout the protest, a Cantonese homonym that carries the double meaning of anti-extradition and anti-death. The slogan epitomized the angst of the local community as they saw that their cherished rule of law and civil liberties under One Country Two Systems were under severe threat.
User-Defined Keywords
- China
- extradition
- Hong Kong
- leadership
- protests
- repression
- social media
- social movements
- Umbrella movement