Hundreds return to Hong Kong streets as metro, shops shut after violence
Friday`s protests across the Chinese-ruled city erupted hours after its embattled leader, Carrie Lam, invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years to ban the face masks demonstrators use to hide their identities. The night`s "extreme violence" justified the use of the emergency law, Beijing-backed Lam said in a television address on Saturday.
Oct 05, 2019, 14:11 PM IST