What is 2019 Hong Kong extradition bill?
The '''Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019''' was a proposed bill in [[Hong Kong]]. It would have changed a law that was already there, the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance (Cap. 503) in relation to special submission arrangements and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance (Cap. 525). It would have changed the way the government of Hong Kong asked for people to be arrested in any other part of the [[People's Republic of China]], namely [[mainland China]], [[Macau]], and [[Taiwan]], with which it did not already have an existing law.<ref>{{cite news|title=Legal Service Division Report on Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019|url=https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr18-19/english/hc/papers/hc20190412ls-65-e.pdf|first=Timothy|last=Tso|work=Legislative Council of Hong Kong}}</ref> The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019 was never passed. == Background == Early in 2018, a 19-year-old Hong Kong resident was arrested in Taiwan for killing his 20-year-old girlfriend. He was tried in Taiwan because the government of Hong Kong had no way to [[extradition|extradite]] him, to formally ask the government of Taiwan to send him to them as a prisoner. Because of this, people started talking about Hong Kong's criminal law.<ref>{{cite news|title=LCQ3: Proposed amendments to Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance|work=Government Information Services|date=27 March 2019}}</ref> In February 2019, the government proposed a change to criminal laws. The law is meant to allow a the government of Hong Kong to arrest anyone suspected of a crime and send them to places where it does not already have a formal extradition treaty, such as mainland China, Macau and Taiwan.<ref name=Lam>{{cite news|title=Extradition bill not made to measure for mainland China and won't be abandoned, Hong Kong leader