On September 4, Lam announced the formal withdrawal of the extradition bill, but at this point the goals of the protests had broadened beyond the withdrawal of the bill, in large part because of the government’s tactics to repress the protests, and centered around these five demands: . [...] Despite receiving over 24,000 emergency calls that night regarding the incident, the police took more than 30 minutes and arrived immediately following the departure of the triad members People were outraged at the incident not only as a result of the late arrival of the police, but also due to the shutdown of nearby police stations and the refusal . [...] In its response, the PCPD acknowledged that the website (in its different domain permutations) “clearly violated Article 64 of the ‘Privacy Ordinance’, ‘Disclosure of personal data obtained without the consent of the data user is an offense’,” and referred the case to the police for the opening of a criminal investigation, “including investigating the information of the operator of the website inv. [...] A Well-Sequenced Timeline Suggests Coordination Between The Different Assets Some of the strongest indications of the possible coordination between the different asset families is provided by the timeline of the operations across HKLEAKS and the Blue Ribbon network, as well as the coincidence of its timing with other possibly related events. [...] This coincided with a rapid escalation of the street protests to violent conflict, culminating with the clashes between the protesters and the police during the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, on October 1.
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