{"id":9745,"date":"2019-10-04T22:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/04\/hong-kong-leader-threatens-harsher-crackdown-under-emergency-law"},"modified":"2019-10-04T22:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:58:29","slug":"hong-kong-leader-threatens-harsher-crackdown-under-emergency-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9745","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader threatens harsher crackdown under emergency law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam refuses to rule out curfew or delaying elections after banning protesters\u2019 face masks<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s 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 href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-10-03\/hong-kong-police-groups-urge-curfews-other-steps-to-halt-unrest\">a citywide curfew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference to announce the new anti-mask law Carrie Lam told journalists \u201cfreedoms are not without limits\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/04\/hong-kong-leader-threatens-harsher-crackdown-under-emergency-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam refuses to rule out curfew or delaying elections after banning protesters\u2019 face masksHong Kong\u2019s 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 p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,555,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9748,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}