Carrie Lam refuses to rule out curfew or delaying elections after banning protesters’ face masks
Hong Kong’s leader has hinted that colonial-era powers she deployed to ban face masks at protests could be used for even harsher measures, amid calls from police groups and critics of the protest movement for a citywide curfew.
At a press conference to announce the new anti-mask law Carrie Lam told journalists “freedoms are not without limits”. Asked about further restrictions, including a possible delay to local elections set for November, she said that if violence did not stop, the government would not rule out any measures permitted by law.
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