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BEIJING BEING SITUATED BY HONG KONG LEADER AFTER ENORMOUS PROTESTS-

China Doubled down on its support for Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Monday after days of protests in the Chinese-ruled city over a planned extradition bill, and a source close to Lam said Beijing was unlikely to let her go even is she tried to resign. Lam's efforts to proceed with a bill that would permit people in Hong Kong to be extradited to China to stand trial triggered the biggest and most violent protests in the former British colony in decades. As the political crisis entered its second week, demonstrators and opposition politicians braved intermittent rain to visit the near the government offices and call the bill to be killed and for her to step down. The upheaval comes at a fragile time Xi Jimping, who is grappling with a deepening US trade war, an ebbing economy and regional strategic tension. Hong Kong has been governed under one country two system formula since its return to Beijing in 1997, allowing freedoms not granted to the mainland, including an independent judiciary, but short of a fully democratic vote.

Many residents are increasingly unnerved by Beijing tightening grip and what they see as the erosion of those freedoms, fearing that changes to the rule of law could imperil its status as a global financial center. Leading Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong walked free from prison Monday and vowed to join anti-government protests rocking the city. Wong, the poster child of the huge pro-democracy "Umbrella Movement" protests of 2014, became the latest voice to call for the Chief Executive resignation.

CHINA IS GATHERING ORGANS FROM FALUN GONG MEMBERS-

China is assassinating members of the Falun Gong spiritual group and gathering their organs for transplant, a panel of experts and lawyers on Monday as they asked further examinations into a prospective genocide. Members said they had heard clear evidence forced organ harvesting had taken place over 20 years in a final adjustment from China tribunal, an independent panel set up by a campaign group to examine the issue. Beijing has repeatedly denied accusations by human rights researchers and scholars that it forcibly takes organs from prisoners of conscience and said it stopped using organs from executed prisoners in 2015. But the panel said that it was satisfied that the practice was still taking place, with imprisoned Falun Gong members probably the principal source of organs for forced harvesting. Falun Gong is a religious group based around meditation that China prohibits 20 years ago after 10,000 members seemed at the Central leadership compound in Beijing in silent objection. Thousands of members have since been jailed.

It was less transparent if the Uighur Muslim minority had been sufferers, the tribunal found, though it said they were endangered to being utilized as a bank of organs. The ending displays that very many people have passed away ineffable terrible deaths for no reason. Chinese government adjustments say human organ contribution must be optional and without payment, said a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in London. We hope that the British people will not be misled by rumors said a spokesman in a statement sent before the tribunal's final judgment was released. The China Tribunal was set up by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, a campaign group, charged with examining whether crimes had been committed as a result of China's transplant practices.