A murder suspect whose case was used by the Hong Kong government to push a controversial extradition bill walked free from jail on Wednesday. More here:
HONG KONG - Chinese-ruled Hong Kong and Taiwan engaged in a rare squabble on Wednesday over a Hong Kong man accused of murder in Taiwan whose case was used by Hong Kong to promote a now-withdrawn extradition bill.
He was given an early release on Wednesday, coincidentally the same day that Hong Kong’s legislature formally killed the extradition bill, the original trigger for months of often violent unrest in the former British colony. “We are solemnly telling the Hong Kong government that you have to take full responsibility for all bitter consequences,” the council statement said.
Hong Kong Secretary for Security John Lee said that Taiwan was obstructing the case for “political reasons” and Chan should be free to go to Taiwan and surrender himself, as he has offered. He was arrested by Hong Kong police in March 2018, but authorities there were only able to find evidence against him for money laundering.
“For the society, for Hong Kongers, I can only be sorry. I hope you can all forgive me ... let me be a new person and give me the opportunity to return to society.”China, which has never renounced the use of force to ensure Taiwan’s unification with the mainland, has offered Taiwan the same “one country, two systems” formula under which Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
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