Hong Kong's Carrie Lam <br />Withdraws Extradition Bill .<br />For the past three months, protesters in Hong Kong have <br />been demanding that a bill allowing prisoners to be <br />extradited to mainland China be withdrawn.<br />Protesters are also demanding an independent look <br />into police brutality and that protests stop <br />being characterized as "riots.".<br />They want the release of arrested <br />protesters and to implement <br />universal suffrage in Hong Kong.<br />Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam, who previously <br />only suspended the bill, has finally conceded to the <br />first of five demands by withdrawing the bill.<br />Pro-Beijing lawmaker Michael Tien <br />thinks the decision may <br />have come too late.<br />I believe the withdrawal of <br />the bill ... may be too late because <br />this movement has become <br />more than the bill, Michael Tien, via CNN.<br />A recent recording that was leaked <br />to Reuters raised the question of <br />whether Lam would soon be resigning, <br />but she has since denied those rumors
