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French
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Abstract
since the beginning of June this year, Hong Kong has been shaken by constant demonstrations involving a large part of the population. Initially, millions of people went to the streets to protest against a bill to extradite ‘criminals’ to China. Following ever more open attacks on the freedoms of the Special Administrative Region (Ras) — the kidnapping of publishers publishing critical works of the Communist Party of China (Pcc), the invalidation of MPs advocating localism or simply democracy, a ban on an independent political party — which had hardly provoked any protests, a large part of Hong Kong considered this new law to be an unbearable attack on the independence of the judiciary, seen as the basis for the special system of the Ras. After the suspension of the bill by the Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, the movement extended its demands to secure guarantees on the sustainability of the formula ‘one country, two systems’ governing the Ras: withdrawal of the bill, creation of an independent commission of inquiry into police violence, amnesty of those arrested, withdrawal of the term ‘riot’ (which may lead to sentences of up to 10 years imprisonment) and genuine elections by universal suffrage.