2019 in Hong Kong

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Events in the year 2019 in Hong Kong.

Incumbents

Executive branch

• Chief Executive: Carrie Lam
  • Chief Secretary for Administration: Matthew Cheung
  • Financial Secretary: Paul Mo-po Chan
  • Secretary for Justice: Teresa Cheng

Legislative branch

• President of the Legislative Council: Andrew Leung

Judicial branch

• Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal: Geoffrey Ma

Events

• Cheating scandal between Andy Hui and Jacqueline Wong
• March 29 - the Government gazettes the extradition bill.[1]
• June 17 - Joshua Wong was released from prison.
• July 1 - Protesters stormed LegCo.
• July 21 - After the Yuen Long attack, no arrest were made by the police upon investigation at a nearby village that night.[2]
• August 15 - Democracy activist Benny Tai released on bail.
• August 22 — Protests enter their 12th week as police reintroduced water-cannons and tear gas.[3]
• October 5 - The Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation begins.
• November 11 - The conflict at Chinese University begins.
• November 24 — In the 2019 Hong Kong local elections, The pro-democracy camp achieved its biggest landslide victory in the history of Hong Kong, gaining control of 17 of the 18 District Councils and tripling their seats from around 124 to about 388.
• November 27 — United States signs Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act that requires the U.S. government to impose sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong officials.
• November 29 - As the siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University ends,[4] the University takes back the control of the campus.[5]

Deaths

• 3 January – Michael Yeung, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong (b. 1945).[6]

• 12 January – Patrick Yu, barrister, Hong Kong's first Chinese prosecutor (b. 1922).[7]

• 11 March – Peter Wong Man-kong, shipping magnate and politician (b. 1949).[8]

See also

• List of Hong Kong films of 2019

References

1. "政府回應近期社會事件：背景". Information Service Department of the HKSAR Government. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
2. "警指南邊圍村無人持武無拘捕人" (in Chinese). The Cable News. 2019-07-22. Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
3. Jessie Yeung; Sandy Sidu (August 25, 2019), "Live ammunition, petrol bombs and water cannons mark violent escalation in Hong Kong protests", CNN.com, retrieved August 25, 2019
4. "Hong Kong police end campus siege". Japan Times. 29 November 2019. ISSN 0447-5763. Archived from the original on 3 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
5. "理大今日正式解封 限校方授權人士進入". 香港商報網. 2019-11-29. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
6. "Hong Kong Catholic Bishop Michael Yeung dies at 73". hongkongfp.com. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
7. "Tributes flow for Hong Kong's first Chinese prosecutor Patrick Yu, after death at 96". scmp.com. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
8. Veteran Hong Kong deputy to National People’s Congress Peter Wong Man-kong dies at age 70