The leader of Hong Kong said Tuesday the extradition bill that set off a firestorm of protests in the region was dead.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said the government’s work on the bill, which would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China to face trial, had been a “total failure.”

“Here are still lingering doubts about the government’s sincerity or worries whether the government will restart the process in the legislative council,” she said at a news conference.

“So, I reiterate here, there is no such plan, the bill is dead.”

The extradition bill sparked huge and at times violent street protests and plunged the former British colony into turmoil.

Lam’s declaration appeared to be a win for opponents of the bill, but it was not immediately clear if it would be enough to satisfy them.

Demonstrators have also called for Lam to resign, for an independent investigation into police actions against protesters, and for the government to abandon the description of a violent protest on June 12 as a riot.