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On June 9, 2024, about 600 people representing organizations of Hongkongers in Taiwan, as well as local Taiwanese groups, gathered at the Liberty Square archway and marched along the streets of Taipei City. The theme this year is "Freedom June," hoping to extend the connotation of the June 2019 "anti-extradition" movement to another level. Sung Pi-lung/The Epoch Times
Eighteen civil society groups, including Hong Kong Outlanders, marched in Taipei City on June 9 to call on the outside world to watch what is happening in Hong Kong.
On this day five years ago, 1.03 million Hong Kong people took to the streets, ushering in the anti-extradition movement.
Zhong Yuan is a researcher focused on China’s political system, the country’s democratization process, human rights situation, and Chinese citizens’ livelihood. He began writing commentaries for the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times in 2020.