Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers are out in the streets, protesting a deeply unpopular bill. While fighting for withdrawal of the ELAB (the bill that would allow local authorities to extradite people to countries that Hong Kong doesn’t have extradition agreements with), they are fighting about the status of Hong Kong, their freedom, and the influence of mainland China over them. It all started with murder committed by one of Hong Kong citizens on his girlfriend in Taiwan, the perpetrator confessed a month later after returning to Hong Kong. He couldn’t be charged for this crime in HK because the crime was committed in another country, he couldn’t be extradited to Taiwan to be charged there because, this two countries don’t have an extradition agreement. Because of this HK officials proposed a deal that would allow them to extradite people to countries that they don’t have extradition agreements with. Hongkongers are afraid that signing this bill would allow the local offi...