Carrie Lam withdrew the controversial bill that has plunged HK into its worst political crisis in decades.
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Lam, in a pre-recorded televised message, on Wednesday formally withdrew the bill, acceding to one of pro-democracy protesters' five demands, although many demonstrators and lawmakers said the move was too little, too late.said on Thursday that the withdrawal of the bill was an olive branch that leaves demonstrators with no excuse to continue violence.
Police said a suspected petrol bomb was hurled at a luxury property in Kowloon district in the early hours of Thursday and the suspects fled on a motorbike. Local newspaper Apple Daily said the house belonged to Jimmy Lai, who was in the property at the time. Pro-democracy publishing tycoon Lai is an outspoken critic of Beijing.
The bill, which would have allowed people in the city to be sent to China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party, was seen as the latest example of what many residents see as ever-tighter control by Beijing, despite the promise of autonomy.The former British colony was handed back to China in 1997 under a 'one country, two systems' administration which gave the city of more than 7 million people more freedoms than mainland cities, such as an independent judiciary.
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