Five years since the first arrests linked to Hong Kong’s 2019 protests were made, only 28 per cent of the more than 10,000 people arrested have been prosecuted, leaving question marks over what will happen to the remaining 72 per cent. From June 9, 2019 – when over a million Hongkongers took to the streets opposed to a proposed amendment to an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to China – until March this year, 10,279 people had been arrested in connection with the protests. Over the months that followed that first mass march, demonstrations escalated into so…
