Hong Kong: Carrie Lam hints at further measures to suppress protests
Leader says she won’t condone increasingly violent acts but stops short of invoking further emergency powers
Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam has hinted at further measures to suppress the increasingly violent protests in the financial hub ahead of her annual policy speech, which will launch economic but not political measures in an attempt to douse widespread discontent.
Lam told a press briefing on Tuesday that the government will not condone the increasingly violent acts in recent weeks, which has seen activists hurling dozens of petrol bombs at police while others trashed metro stations as well as shops and banks seen as pro-Beijing. A home-made bomb was remotely detonated as a police car drove past on Sunday night and an officer also had his neck slashed by a protester.