On 9 November, the police arrested and charged six democratic legislators (while summoning another legislator) for their role in a dispute over the extradition law previously proposed on 11 May. Lawmakers released bail and were released. [46] On June 30, 2020, the Standing Committee of the National People`s Congress in Beijing passed a national security law to be imposed in Hong Kong. Since then, several countries have suspended agreements with Hong Kong. In response, China and Hong Kong (on instruction from the central government) announced the suspension of Hong Kong`s extradition agreements with Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Germany and the United States, as well as the suspension of an outstanding agreement with France[5][6][7] and the suspension of certain bilateral mutual legal aid agreements. Hong Kong Watch, based in the United Kingdom, also published a petition signed by 15 parliamentarians from different countries against the extradition law on 29 May. Among the signatories was House of Lords Member David Alton, Liberal Democrat Leader Whipping house of commons Alistair Carmichael, President of Alliance 90/Greens in the Bundestag Katrin Goring-Eckardt, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Parliament Garnett Genuis, Member of the Malaysian Parliament and Head of ASEAN for Human Rights Charles Santiago, Austrian MEP Josef Weidenholzer, seven US senators and one US Member of Parliament. [52] Later, Zhao addressed all the countries that suspended previous agreements with Hong Kong: “By imposing sanctions, they want to force the Chinese government to change its position, but that is just a dream.” British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK “would not consider reactivating these agreements unless there are clear and robust security measures that could prevent the UK`s extradition from being hijacked under the new national security legislation.” On June 5, 2019, the Law Society of Hong Kong published an 11-part review of the amendments proposed by Cap. 503 (FOO). He questioned the lack of additional evidente requirements for extradition and the inadmissibility of additional evidence against extradition. He argued that the HK government should not rush the current legislation and that before proposing such laws, a comprehensive review of the current extradition system and research on the interdepartmental transfer of refugees would have to be carried out.

The Law Society recommended a proposal to specifically cover Taiwan`s assassination case if the government wanted to transfer the suspect quickly.