Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says China extradition bill that sparked mass protests 'dead'

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has backed down on the extradition bill that fuelled the territory's biggest political crisis in decades.

Source: AAP

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said the extradition bill that sparked the territory's biggest political crisis in decades was dead, admitting that the government's work on the bill had been a "total failure".

The bill, which would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China to face trial, sparked huge and at times violent street protests and plunged the former British colony into turmoil.

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